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• Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Military, Support, Magnitude

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

  T. S. Eliot

  Vanity, Doubt, Majority

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

  William Ernest Henley

  World, Anthology, Possession

  William Ernest Henley (1891). “Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys”

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• Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

  Norman Mailer

  Egomaniacs, Liberalism, Conspiring

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• We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Selfish, Loving Others

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• I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

  John Denver

  Film, Knows

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

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• Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

  Georges Braque

  Communication, Talking, Painting

  "Les Problèmes de la Peinture". Interview with Gaston Diehl in Paris, 1945.

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• Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Ambition, Imagination

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• Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Passion, Science, Men

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• Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.15, 谷月社

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• Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.

  Roger Ebert

  Teaching, People, Giving

  "Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." by David Weddle, articles.latimes.com. July 13, 2003.

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• Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

  Immanuel Kant

  Firsts, Moral, Found

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “THE THREE CRITIQUES: The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & The Critique of Judgment: The Base Plan for Transcendental Philosophy, The Theory of Moral Reasoning and The Critiques of Aesthetic and Teleological Judgment”, p.936, e-artnow

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• No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Real, Love Is, Feet

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Genius, Obstacles

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• Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Age, Vivid

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it.

  Dylan Ratigan

  America, People, Political

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• I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

  Susan Wiggs

  Succeed, Needed, Knows

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• I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Perfect, Normal, Interaction

  Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.107, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.

  Shaka

  Fear, Heart, Men

  "Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 319, 1955.

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• I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Thinking, Bags, Paper

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• I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

  Mira Bartok

  Helping, Mental Health, Illness

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

  John Milton

  Hope, Fire, Despair

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.101

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• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Adventure, Arriving

  "Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. I: Ground of Conflict, 1935.

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• Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Integrity, Covenant, Trustworthiness

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