#capacities

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ↗

— Walter Scott

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I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. ↗

— Diane Lane

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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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