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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably. ↗

— Susan Davis

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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ↗

— Ben Elton

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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