"Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion."
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"I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex."
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"All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end."
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"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women."
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something."
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"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria."
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"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education."
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"Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it."
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"Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable."
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"The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity."
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"For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see."
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"Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things."
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"We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it."
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"Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly."
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"Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything."
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"I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God."
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"In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right."
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"Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity."
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"Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity."
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"You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do."
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