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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Rabbi
Capacity
Ideas
Talent
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
Dan Quayle
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Former Vice President Of The United States
Capacity
Country
Japan
Percent
Two
Western
Ally
Countries
Industrialized
Ours
Statement
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With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.
John Collison
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Capacity
Online
People
Real
Stripes
Tools
Valuable
Work Business People
Limited
Operated
Stripe
Valuable Thing
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Christmas
Capacity
Faculty
Pregnant
Stirring
Wonder
Youth
Art Science Religion
Science Art Religion
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One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.
Laura Poitras
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Film Director
Capacity
Go Back In Time
Thinking
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill
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Author
Ability
Burning
Capacity
Desire
Given
Obsession
Principles
Use Your Will
Becomes
Concentrate
Depend
Largely
Principle
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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
John Irving
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Novelist
Alone
Being Alone
Capacity
Like Being Alone
Spend Time
Time Myself Better
Alone Time Myself
Writer
Diminished
Spend
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I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.
Joseph Brodsky
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Poet
Beloved
Capacity
Life Age Me
Suppose
Reliable
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I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.
Diana Quick
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Actress
Capacity
Turns
Unhappy
Time Great Myself
Be Happy
Pretend
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I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe.
Richard Branson
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Business Magnate
Capacity
Clean
Energy
Millions
Passionate
Renewable Energy
Years
Very
Abundant
Around
Been
Bring
Sustainable
Particularly
Globe
Renewable
Solar
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I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.
Richard Rainwater
/
Capacity
Fields
Forty
Granted
Hospitals
Nonprofit
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Novelist
War
Capacity
Empathy
Lost
Meaningful
Pain
Spiritual
Opposite
Understand
Own
Both
Every
Else
Won
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The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
Mark Udall
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United States Senator
Army
Capacity
Congress
Marine
Moving
National Security
Troops
Globally
Marines
Quickly
Rebuild
Send
Strengthen
Threats
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We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write.
Julian Treasure
/
Capacity
Inner Voice
Conversations
Inner
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They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Lawyer
Capacity
Every Man
Glory
Puritan
Allowed
Believed
Comprehend
Fathers
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Philosopher
Capacity
Growth
Intelligent
Pain
Shows
Suffering
Supreme
World Suffering
Degree
Highest Degree
Increased
Point
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The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't mean scepticism, criticism, querying, but I do mean cynicism.
Hilary Benn
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British Politician
Capacity
Criticism
Cynicism
Scepticism
Change Things
More Than Anything
Worries
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Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
Bill Lipinski
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Former United States Representative
Capacity
Congestion
Constraints
Important
Issues
Mobility
Rail
Sexy
Freight
Issue
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As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.
Kenan Thompson
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Actor
Capacity
Host
Jeopardy
Love Good Always
Love Good Black
Pretty Good
Sketches
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It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.
Pedro Almodovar
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Film Director
Capacity
Mixing
Pity
Thinking
Disappears
Spectator
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Fredric Jameson
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Capacity
Cheaper
Corporate
Labour
Location
Operations
Structure
Worry
Feature
Locations
Overseas
Transferring
Worrying
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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Activist
Capacity
Children
Hypocrite
Mother
Hypocrites
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Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.
Bryan Stevenson
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Professor
Capacity
Knowing
People
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I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person. Most of the impediments or solutions are state-driven, not federally driven.
Stacey Abrams
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Capacity
Desire
Driven
Economic
Economic Security
Poverty
Security
Solutions
I Am Person See
Guaranteed
Impediment
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While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.
Peter A. Levine
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Author
Capacity
Effects
Events
Innate
Nervous
Nervous System
Organisms
Rebound
Stress
Threatening
Accumulate
Began
Studying
Suspect
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I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
Brené Brown
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Author
Capacity
Engaging
Greater
Vulnerability
Willingness
Worthiness
World Never Place
Means
Place
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For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
Roman Jakobson
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Linguist
Capacity
Etc
Heavy
Thick
Acute
Bright
For Example
Grave
Pointed
Rounded
Suggest
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Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.
Dennis Kucinich
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Former U.s. Representative
Capacity
Dialogue
Funeral
March
Grave
Lift
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The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
William C. Kirby
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Professor
Brother
Capacity
Generous
Taiwan
Big Brother
Issue
Manner
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It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.
David Rakoff
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Writer
Adore
Animal
Blind
Capacity
Logic
Moral
Believes
Creature
Component
False
Faulty
Purer
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Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
Henning Mankell
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Crime Writer
Capacity
Dignity
Enormous
Survival
Tragedy
Normally
Shown
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
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Poet
Poetry
Capacity
Meaningful
Myth
In The End
Poem
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What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
Alex Campbell
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Politician
Capacity
Enjoyment
Exhausted
Fulfillment
Pleasure
Realizing
Seeking
Material
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The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.
Martha Beck
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Author
Capacity
Moments
Obligation
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I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.
Tatiana Maslany
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Actress
Daughter
Capacity
Knows
Play
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What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.
Nicholas A. Christakis
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Physician
Technology
Brain
Capacity
Groups
Human Brain
Enables
Interactions
Monitor
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Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
Richard Attias
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Sports
Bridges
Capacity
Dialogue
Games
International Relations
Olympic Games
Embody
Mission
Olympic
Perfectly
Relations
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You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.
Tom Daley
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Diver
Capacity
Gym
Pool
Cent
Per
Mental
Physical
Seventy
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Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning can be both cultivated and encouraged.
Clint Smith
/
Capacity
Cultivated
Devoid
Encouraged
Prisons
Spaces
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Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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Writer
Capacity
Destroyed
Leader
Motivation
Organization
Productivity
Appears
Worker
Bosses
Choose
Leaders
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Writer
Men
Capacity
Different
Human Species
Senses
Sight
Species
Touch
Belong
Improved
Superior
Thus
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I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.
John Ridley
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Screenwriter
Capacity
Give Me
Oval
Sorry
Transmission
Excel
Oval Office
Regular
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Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
Michael Ondaatje
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Novelist
Capacity
Clue
Might
Moving
Restructure
Stories
Discovered
Editorial
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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy
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Philanthropist
Death
Capacity
Children
Inspire
Length
Length Of Life
Political
Gave
Gifts
Held
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
W. L. George
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Writer
Men
Capacity
Deny
Dog
Instinct
Intellect
Intuition
Collar
Connects
Correlate
Credited
Effect
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The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
Wendy Kopp
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Leadership
Opportunity
Capacity
Critical
Cultivating
Educational
Teach
Ensuring
Global
Programs
Mission
Network
Ultimately
Unites
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The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
Steven Cojocaru
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Television Actor
Inspiring
Great
Capacity
Compassion
Donation
Generosity
Given
Importance
Much
Been
Gift
Message
Organ
Says
Sends
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Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
Paul Theroux
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Film Writer
Capacity
Great Things
Limits
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If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.
Peter Hammill
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Singer
Thankful
Affected
Capacity
Given
Output
Attack
Perform
Mine
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At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Programmer
Capacity
Extending
People
Share
Tools
Want
Build
Connect
Facebook
Help
Help People
People Help Doing
Maintain
Relationships
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