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“It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.”

Knows Writing Actors Bits Capable Relax

Author:Steven Knight

“You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.”

People Humans Persons Happens Cities Dying Information Like You Disease Capable Consequence Overcoming Majority Climate Addiction Climate Change Human History Predicting Underwater Food Supply

Author:Moby

“We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.”

Doe Capable Species Environmental Catastrophe

Author:Moby

“If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.”

Ifs Mind Spirit Holy Capable Very Good Heavy Strikes Holy Spirit Lifting Heavy Lifting

Author:Bill McKibben

“Let kids dream! Let them fantasize. Let them plan all these great things they want to be. Stoke it, instead of limiting what you think people can do and limiting what you think their capabilities are. And liberals, by definition, do that. They don't think anybody's capable of much. That's why government's need.”

People Thinking Want Needs Dream Government Kids Can Do Plans Capable Definitions Great Things Capability Stoke

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

Art Literature Capable Art Is Excellence Intensity Disagreeable

Author:John Keats

“Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others.”

Way Judging Capable Caring Intimacy Versus Inner Life New Relationship

Author:Tara Brach

“I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.”

Process Trouble Heard Design Capable Starting Invention Admire Designer Blank Slate Blank Slates Design Process

Author:Michael Bierut

“How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.”

Growth Influence Economic Capable Smart Strategy Yield Economist Economic Growth Very Smart

Author:George W. Bush

“Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.”

Humans Responsibility Moral Capable Reasoning Moral Responsibility

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.”

People Ifs Way Should Years Humans Would Be Wanted Waiting Religious Human Beings Capable Billions Odd Sinning

Author:Richard Dawkins

“All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Stills School Culture Left Democracy Citizens Capable Percent Dollars Democratic Coming Out Sibling Democratic Society Informed Citizens

Author:Robert Bly

“I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.”

Humans Looks Earth Realizing Human Beings Capable Cease

Author:Malcolm X

“It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.”

“He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.”

Mind Spiritual Found Understanding Holy Capable Scripture Compare Passages Anxious Holy Scriptures Comprehending Spiritual Truth True Understanding

Author:Origen

“While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."”

Thinking States Seems Capable Exception Korea North Korea Mislead Enslavement Coerce

Author:Noam Chomsky

“We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.”

Problem Kids Capable Problem Solving

Author:Ross W. Greene

“NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.”

Capable Alliances Nato

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I know who I am, I know what I am capable of, I know who I trust.”

Knows Capable Who I Am

Author:Mariano Rivera

“I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.”

Thinking Years Bigs Seems Five Four Periods Capable Radical Perceive Five Years Big Changes Radical Change

Author:Philip Glass

“I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.”

Humans Kind Important Human Beings Saws Becoming Capable Extraordinary Corruption Invention Abstract Becoming More

Author:Costa-Gavras

“It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.”

Knows Important Age Know How Teacher Students Comfortable Capable Manage Classroom Flexibility Contributing

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.”

People States Social Violence Activity Creating Capable Institutions Manage Monopoly

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.”

“If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.”

Ifs Able Enjoy Mindfulness Capable Teeth Tea Cooks Breakfast Showers Brushing Brushing Your Teeth

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.”

Ifs Knows Giving Heart Kind Persons Stills Helping Purpose Suffering Chance Compassion Listening Perception Capable Empty Bitterness Compassionate Continuing Deep Listening

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the best aspects of each other.”

Capable Aspect Mark Violent Checks Appeals Sarcastic Vicious Being Sarcastic

Author:Peter Berg

“[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.”

Trying Persons Today School Policy Capable Smart Climate Block Realms Subtle Sophisticated Smart Person

Author:David Brooks

“There's no question but that a nuclear Iran, a nuclear-capable Iran is unacceptable to America. It presents a threat not only to our friends but ultimately a threat to us to have Iran have nuclear material, nuclear weapons that could be used against us or used to be threatening to us.”

America Used Materials Weapons Capable Threat Nuclear Used To Be Iran Nuclear Weapons Threatening Nuclear Iran

Author:Mitt Romney

“There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.”

Should Country Reason Dies Capable Reason Why No Reason

Author:Barack Obama

“When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that from my experience you are able to just push harder than you ever 'thought' yourself capable of. Once one being sets themselves free from the chaos and becomes the living example of freedom then surely you are indeed free to do the same.”

Able Remember Sacrifice Example Capable Harder Chaos

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“When a being such as myself who came from a rather difficult background is to 'work' here on earth, dimensionally as part of assistance to the animal kingdom one is brought to your own awareness of what you are capable of firstly even before you're given access to what goes on here. When the dimensions work here there are no issues or fears, just full awareness in each moment of who we really are and what it is we are currently busy assisting with, therefore I have a lot still to learn.”

Stills Moments Earth Given Difficult Animal Issues Awareness Goes On Capable Busy Access Backgrounds Kingdoms Dimensions Assistance Animal Kingdom Assisting

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.”

People Together Beautiful Capable Genocide Amazing Things Get Together

Author:Jordan Peele

“The people that choose to face life, the people that choose to embrace it, the people that choose to just soak it up, the people that choose to dive right in and test their limits and find out what they're capable of and how good they can be and if that's really what they want to do, victims are gonna hate them because they are showing what anybody could do if they just had an attitude adjustment.”

People Ifs Want Faces Hate Attitude Limits Capable Tests Victim Embrace Adjustment Attitude Adjustment

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I say to this generation: "We must encourage these kids." Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader. And when they don't get what they want, say, "Okay, sweetheart, yours is coming. Let's help you get it." Be there 100% for them.”

Want Helping Kids Wonderful Generations Capable Okay This Generation Sweetheart Cheerleader

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.”

World Humans Together Human Beings Capable Monsters Get Together

Author:Jordan Peele

“In entirely unrelated news, there's a new proposal to mandate coverage for gay infertility. The problem is that gay infertility is just biology. Two men and two women are not infertile. They're just not capable of impregnating each other. This isn't a medical problem. It's a mental problem.”

Men Two Problem Gay News Capable Medical Biology Proposal Coverage Mandates Infertility Medical Problems

Author:David Horowitz

“The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.”

“You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.”

Home Brain Capable

Author:John Medina

“I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.”

Believe Artist Culture I Believe Evolution Capable Dimensions Contributing

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Anybody who is capable of doing terrible things, you don't want them out in the world, but you can't help but respect their ingenuity and their savvy and their intelligence as they go about their dastardly deeds.”

World Want Helping Terrible Capable Deeds Terrible Things Ingenuity Savvy

Author:Bryan Fuller

“What I'm trying to do is help people understand if for one day they could have the best day ever, where there energy and there focus and everything is super clear and they feel like a great golden god... if you do that one time you know you're capable of it and you can start working towards that. Most people I know have felt like crap without knowing it most of their life. They've never had a wonderful day. Once you have that day, you can learn how to kick more ass repeatedly.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Trying Helping Energy Felt Knowing Clear Focus Wonderful One Day Capable Ass Golden Kicks One Time Crap Wonderful Day Best Day Ever

Author:Dave Asprey

“Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.”

Capable Atheist Debate Educated Arrogant Snobbish

Author:Peter Kreeft

“When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.”

Alive Capable

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.”

Stills Use Today Spirit Dangerous Terrible Capable Criticism Debate Tendencies Routine Dishes Washing Revolt Stew Lobotomy Washing Dishes

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments themselves are less capable of implementing the kind of promises or programs that they have put forward.”

Kind Government Nations United Century Promise Capable Program Institutions 20th Century United Nations Implementing

Author:Mary Robinson

“I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of adults, as if they are capable of handling both complexity and emotional responsibility.”

Ifs Ends Matter Political Left Responsibility Emotional Politician Capable Adults Bunch Complexity Left And Right

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Another thing about being live or having power is having power is responsibility. When niggas respect you they respect how you move and what you are capable of doing and they follow what you do.”

Moving Responsibility Capable

Author:Cormega

“Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.”

People Wells Stills Age Social Sides Challenges Pay Attention Theory Capable Capitalism Meetings West Caring Scales Socialism Posts Pay Attention Domination Unprecedented

Author:Riane Eisler

“There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher rates of reproduction for people capable of solving scientific problems or creating new scientific ideas. So if, in fact, the science-forming capacities evolved for other reasons, it would not be too surprising if those particular structures that have developed proved to be rather special in their nature, reflecting the contingencies of their evolution or the working of physical law.”

People Ifs Mind Ideas Reason Facts Problem Law Happened Special Particular Evolution Higher Creating Capable Capacity Pressure Structure Rate Surprising Reflecting Reproduction Contingency

Author:Noam Chomsky

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