#capable

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Don Nickles

#bothers #capable #comments #delivering #destruction

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. ↗

— Origen

#any #being #could #degree #every

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#being #capable #facts #knowledge #law

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #become #earn #earning #get

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#after #country #danger #day #defending

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#am #anything #arrive #character #doing

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. ↗

— Edith Stein

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