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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

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Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. ↗

— Bill Richardson

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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. ↗

— Florence Kelley

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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