#capacity

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love. ↗

— Giovanni Papini

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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. ↗

— John Rawls

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Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living? ↗

— James Rouse

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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#man #product #think #wealth