#capacity

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ↗

— Henry Ford

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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ↗

— Judith Viorst

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This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. ↗

— George McGovern

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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. ↗

— Moliere

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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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