#capacity

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. ↗

— Charles Edison

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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. ↗

— Henry Ford

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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

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That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people. ↗

— Clint Walker

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I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

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