#cap

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ↗

— Henry Miller

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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. ↗

— Henry Miller

#capable #could #enough #idea #killing

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#blocks #building #captured #deep #failure

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#college #exaggerated #fly #grow #grow up

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#capitalist #commercial #directed #economy #free

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#august #day #days #dreams #ending

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#asks #capable #desire #gain #hunger

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#captured #does #how #light #negative

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#capable #humanity #people #shy #stanley

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. ↗

— Moliere

#every #frenchmen #gallantry #indulge #occasion