#capacity

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

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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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The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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

— Moliere

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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

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The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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