#capable

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job. ↗

— Dylan Moran

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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

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In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

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I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that. ↗

— Don Nelson

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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

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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

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I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off. ↗

— Dolly Parton

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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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