#capable

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#capable #citizen #democracy #equilibrium #humanist

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. ↗

— John Scott

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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. ↗

— John Shirley

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Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient. ↗

— Peter Singer

#conscious #convenient #enjoying #find #least

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group. ↗

— Peter Singer

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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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