#capacity

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ↗

— Ben Okri

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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

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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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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. ↗

— Terry Southern

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Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

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The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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