#capacity

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#capacity #claim #contribute #even #i

Over the last few millennial, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to outsource this fundamental human capacity. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#fundamental #human-capacity #memories #memory #millennial

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#capacity #human #human nature #i #more

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ↗

— George Leonard

#capacity #creative #infinite #may #practical

Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#capacity #countries #developed #developed countries #developing

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#discrimination #fine #hypothesis #required #working

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. ↗

— James Madison

#cannot #capacity #doubted #erudition #female

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#budget #build #capacity #country #down

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#coarse #idleness #infinite #infinite capacity #living

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#certain #certainly #east #enduring #history