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"Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society." »Ruth Nanda Anshen
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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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"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." »Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick
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"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." »Dave Barry
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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
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones." »Stephen Covey
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"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
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"Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood." »H. L. Wayland
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." »Ogden Nash
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"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." »James Madison, (attributed)
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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit." »Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
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"metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile." »Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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"Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time." »Dr. Lillian Troll
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"The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe." »Anonymous
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." »Henry Ford
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"You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table." »Gypsy Smith
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"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." »Ayn Rand
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"I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner." »James Cash Penney
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"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." »Pearl S. Buck
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"The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine." »George Sand
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"Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined...." »Leo C. Rosten
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." »Warren Bennis
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"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
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"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." »Shana Alexander
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"The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance." »Pablo Casals
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