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• I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hunting, Hair, Clothes

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• People are great. But there's people who you get together with and you talk and you go away feeling energized, you feel inspired. And then there's people who you talk with and you go away feeling horrible, feeling drained, feeling like you're incapable of doing anything. Those people are psychic vampires and I now stay away from them.

  John Zorn

  Psychics, People, Feelings

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

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• Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

  Billy Graham

  Conviction, Preacher, Preaching

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• A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.

  Francis Galton

  Strong, Intelligent, Men

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• The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

  Oliver DeMille

  Rome, Leisure, Entertainment

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• The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.

  Peter Padfield

  War, Army, Fighting

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• The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank of Men have Curiosity and Knowledge enough to form Principles, but not enough to form true ones, or correct any Prejudices that they may have imbib'd: And 'tis among the middling Rank, that Tory Principles do at present prevail most in England.

  David Hume

  Men, Gentleman, Curiosity

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.80

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• The last six years afforded me much time and food for thought. I came to the conclusion that 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.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Race, Years, Two

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 31, 1995.

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• Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.

  Maimonides

  Views, Understanding, Intellectual

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.17, 1190.

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• By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.

  Erich Ludendorff

  Party, Winning, Self

  "My War Memories, 1914-1918". Book by Erich Ludendorff, 1919.

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• Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.

  Francis Parkman

  Art, War, Men

  Francis Parkman (1865). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.214

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• Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

  Jose Saramago

  Definitions, Mouths, Human Nature

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

  Publilius Syrus

  Modification, Plans

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• And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

  A. C. Cuza

  Social, Theory, Explaining

  "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

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• Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said to have been uttered, can make that true which is radically false. If an innocent child, unconscious of good or evil, irresponsible to God and man, incapable of thought or action, is not already, in accordance with Christian theology, a member of Christ, then no vicarious promise or priestly ablution can make him one. For if this were so, a similar ceremony under devil worship could make him a member of Satan.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Christian, Children, Men

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• When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.

  Camille Paglia

  Fun, Gay, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.78, Vintage

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• The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

  Herbert Spencer

  Strong, Poverty, Misery

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.73, VM eBooks

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• Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.

  David Cannadine

  Lonely, Believe, Self Worth

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• Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Guilt

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• ...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

  David Christian

  School, Offering, Research

  David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Appreciate, Effort

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Years, Psychics

  "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.

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• The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.

  Valerie Solanas

  Mother, Past, Males

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

  Charles Lamb

  Music, Thinking, Tunes

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Chapter on Ears'

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