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#potentialities

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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.


Abraham Maslow


#every man #failing #failure #king #like

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.


Margaret Mead


#arbitrary #contrasting #culture #diverse #each

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.


John Foster Dulles


#lasting #lasting peace #let us #long #mankind

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.


Charles E. Wilson


#awaiting #before #benefit #development #further

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.


Vaclav Havel


#interplay #know #none #population #potentialities

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.


Thomas A. Edison


#abandon #absolutely #appalled #brain #dare

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.


Jose Ortega y Gasset


#creatures #efficacy #forgot #fruitful #god

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.


Katherine Anne Porter


#being #capable #chances #could #fulfilled

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.


William James


#becomes #fails #fulfill #organism #potentialities

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.


Ashley Montagu


#born #development #every #fulfillment #his






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