#capacity

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

— Jane Fonda

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else! ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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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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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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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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During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

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Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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