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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.


A. Bartlett Giamatti


#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.


Miguel de Unamuno


#capacity #choose #divine #either #greater

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.


Joseph Butler


#attain #capacity #considered #greatest #greatest happiness

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.


David Cameron


#cannot #country #go #half #i

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.


Alex Campbell


#beginning #capacity #constantly #decreases #enjoyment

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.


Patricia Cornwell


#capacity #curious #existed #human #human capacity

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.


Ann Coulter


#capacity #develop #liberal #likely #linear

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


#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

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


#after #am #bickering #capacity #civil

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.


Girma Woldegiorgis


#doubt #farmers #financial #government #greater






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