Incapable Quotes - Page 11

• Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Special, Global Warming, Problem

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• People like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Party, Rejection

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Giving, Watches

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• I share five scriptural insights that lead me to the conclusion that those who are incapable of trusting in Christ on their own are still welcomed into heaven the same way you and I are welcomed into heaven: by the grace of God.

  Robert Jeffress

  Heaven, Grace, Way

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

  Simon Hoggart

  Lines, Poverty, Firsts

  "Milburn inflamed by compassion gone mad" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2002.

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• We are all a little bit racist. White people, y'all are the first people to denounce it. I'm not racist. I'm incapable of being racist. My best friend is black... He's also my chauffeur, but he's my best friend.

  Aries Spears

  White, People, Black

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• I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of.

  Dov Davidoff

  People, Amazed, Capable

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• Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Powerful, Civilization, Gains

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.209, North Atlantic Books

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• The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.

  E. O. Wilson

  Race, Two, Evil

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• Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Self Questioning, Criticism

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Sick, Becoming

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• What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

  John McCain

  Exercise, Years, Authority

  "McCain: Same-sex marriage ban is un-Republican". www.cnn.com. July 14, 2004.

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• I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

  Paul Auster

  Crazy, Thinking, Soul

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.200, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If trusting in Christ is the only way to be saved one has to wonder about infants, small children, and those who are child-like who are incapable of exercising faith in Christ.

  Robert Jeffress

  Children, Exercise, Way

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

  Annie Baker

  Character, Play, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

  Leigh Hunt

  Courage, Moral, Daring

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.63

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• I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

  Gregory Maguire

  Writing, Caring, Numbers

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• The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay.

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

  Class, Redemption, Sophistry

  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (1997). “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories”, Regnery Pub

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• And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Art, Numbers, Two

  Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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• And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

  Osamu Dazai

  Soul, Might, Rooms

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• ... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Exercise, Rights, Liable

  Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1850). “Godey's Magazine”

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• The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  Morris Sullivan

  Revenge, Independent, Thinking

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• I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

  Richard Steele

  Atheist, Light, People

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