#incapable

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

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People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. ↗

— Origen

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Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ↗

— James Callaghan

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It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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