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

— George Bernard Shaw

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. ↗

— Cyril Falls

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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

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The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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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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