#capacity

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love. ↗

— Giovanni Papini

#desire #love #those #to love #who

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#acting #altogether #capacity #character #coercion

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#capacity #creative #factual #fictional #lasting

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#american #capacity #capitalism #factor #getting

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#build #capacity #competition #health #just

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#active life #after #beginning #capacity #century

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#because #capacity #consciously #convinced #difficulty

You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#better #breaks #capacity #complete #deconstruction

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #being #big #capacity #current

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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