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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗

— Hu Shih

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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. ↗

— John Shirley

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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ↗

— John Sterling

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America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. ↗

— Andy Stern

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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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