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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film. ↗

— John Denver

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The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. ↗

— Gregor Strasser

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