Incapable Quotes - Page 19

• I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

  Maria Mitchell

  Appreciate, Born, Instance

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  Harold MacMillan

  Beautiful, Growth, Renaissance

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• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Class, Evil

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.51, Wildside Press LLC

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• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

  Al Gore

  Powerful, Special, Reform

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• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Attitude, Media, Judging

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Infinity, Accepting, Conceiving

  "The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir (Part 2, Chapter 2 "Time, activity, history", p. 412), 1970.

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• I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Grades, Memoir

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• We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Suffering, Modern

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self.

  John de Ruiter

  Sorry, Disappointment, Heart

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• I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.

  Walter Bonatti

  Fate, Climbing, Accepting

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• Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Prison, Crime, Suspects

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• ...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Facts, Illusion

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Silly, Math, Doubt

  Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

  Mary Astell

  Mean, Men, Acting

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• What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

  George Washington

  Liberty, Triumph, Despotism

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Life of Washington”, p.426

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• If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Firsts, Study

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  Gary Oldman

  Lying, Spy, Terrible

  "Gary Oldman: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2011.

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• No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

  Hu Shih

  Religious, Europe, Chinese

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• Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Perfection, Sin

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• The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

  Diane Frolov

  People, Goodness

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• Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

  Simon Schama

  History, British History, Monarchs

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• Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion... They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, ‘for ever’, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love.

  Pope Francis

  Fashion, Believe, Commitment

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.

  Warren Buffett

  Two, Gold, Use

  "Berkshire’s Corporate Performance vs. the S&P 500". www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2012.

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