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• I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Men, Thinking, Feminism

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Leader, Vision

  "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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• We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.

  Sarada Devi

  Sorrow, Surrender, Lord

  "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". "Vedanta Kesari" Magazine,

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• The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Wages, Equations

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• No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

  John Rawls

  Merit, Natural, Starting

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

  L. Neil Smith

  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Luxury, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.199, Basic Books

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• For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Ambition, Emotional, Order

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• The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dark, Sacrifice, Engineering

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• Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

  Chris Asplen

  Labs, Congress, Clear

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• The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

  David Harvey

  Snakes, Skins, Peculiar

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

  Dhani Jones

  Sports, Football, Book

  "Bengals LB Jones proves to be a true Renaissance man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.

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• An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Opening Up, Identity, Doe

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

  Joel Bakan

  Numbers, People, Three

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Law, Cybernetics, Topics

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 37), 1968.

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• The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Light, Law, Special

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

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• Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Brain, Genius, Limitless

  Michael J. Gelb (1996). “Lessons from the Art of Juggling: How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning, and Life”, Three Rivers Press

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• The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.

  Nhat Hanh

  Knowledge, Mean, Simple

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• America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy.

  Howard Dean

  Heart, Greatness, America

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• When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Thinking, Government, Talking

  "Lawrence Lessig Has a “Moonshot” Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy". Interview with Joshua Holland, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2014.

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• When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

  Seth Lloyd

  Becoming, Computer, Screws

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• With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by devising policies to link up to research networks, encourage technology transfer, and build indigenous capabilities through education and collaborative projects.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Technology, Government, Community

  Speech at the Eighth Session of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, May 23, 2005.

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• Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Lying, Men, College

  Speech at the First Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Commerce - Islamic University of Gaza, May 08, 2005.

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• In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny.

  Kim Il-sung

  Mean, Destiny, Ideas

  "On Some Problems of Our Party's Juche Idea and the Government of the Republic's Internal and External Policies". Mainichi Shimbun, September 17, 1972.

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• Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.

  Gene Sharp

  Military, Mean, Power

  "The Politics of Nonviolent Action". Book by Gene Sharp, 1973.

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