#cap

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#capital #hands #ideas #interest #only

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#disservice #done #herself #history #i

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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