#capable

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ↗

— Lou Holtz

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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. ↗

— Horace

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. ↗

— Akhenaton

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else. ↗

— Julian Bond

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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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