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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory. – Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience. – Samuel Johnson
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. – Titus Maccius Plautus
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart. – A. W. Tozer
Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. – Roger Zelazny
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren Bennis
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. – Dee W. Hock
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon. – Maria Montessori
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. – David Riesman
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do. – L. Neil Smith
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds. – Michael Dorris
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Six
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. – Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined.... – Leo C. Rosten
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... – Dean Gordon Brown
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... – Dean Gordon Brown
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. – Francois Sagan
Fludity and capacity are business skills - rigidity and limitation are not! – Chase LeBlanc
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives. – Sri Madhava
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. – Samuel Butler
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. – Storm Jameson
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. – Henry Ford
I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day. – William Gordon

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