"To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities"
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"It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity.""
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"One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens."
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"At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe."
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"[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation."
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"The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task."
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"Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul."
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"Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him."
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"We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future."
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"We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have."
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"Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right."
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"There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified."
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"... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony."
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"God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking."
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"We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love."
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"When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day."
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"There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering."
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"The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong."
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"All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent."
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"You know you can set fire to the capacity to say."
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