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“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight. And, like it or not, you're in it.”

Humans Ends Stories Difficult Example Planets Genius Weapons Capable Sight Pressure Species Bombs Teamwork Most Amazing Atomic Bomb Under Pressure Poise

Author:Steve Sheinkin

“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.”

Humans Ends Problem Levels Development Capable Organization Method Problem Solving Inquiry Involving Sustaining Accelerate Collectivity Systems Change

Author:David Cooperrider

“Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”

Men Ends Character Might Integrity Capable Pursuit Rational Faculty Als Strength Of Character Having Strength

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.”

Ifs Giving Ends Community Succeed Capable Glory Crosses Give Me Instruments Accomplish Trials Nothingness Employed Incapacity

Author:Theodore Guerin

“Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please take care of your love. Love is capable of reaching so many people.”

People Ends Care Love Is Practice Alive Please Right Now Capable Take Care Reaching

Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.”

Ifs Real Ends Self Faces Asks Mistake Capable Glory Mirrors Forgive Yourself Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Maya Angelou

“...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.”

World Needs Children Ends Done Lines Seeing Creating Capable Providing Stewardship Poorest

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

“If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”

“The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.”

World Humans Mean Ends Shows Enjoy Race Capable Human Race Spite Scandal End Of The World

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.”

Thinking Men Wells Kind Ends Dark White Comedy Focus Capable Down And Clean Come Up The End Of The Day Twisted Lilies Dark Twisted

Author:Brian Regan

“Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a new humanity. Nowadays, in a special way, the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love, and consequently the one light which in the end, illumines the darkness of the world and gives us strength to live and work”

People World Way Needs Giving Ends Light Humanity Darkness Special Truth Is Capable Witness Premises Lifting Arriving Proclaiming Bearing Witness

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a movie. I don't know if I'm capable of doing that though. I think I'll just end up playing Minecraft and self-destructing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Ends Self Home My Own Dog Office Capable Wake Up My Dog

Author:Dan Harmon

“It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.”

Ends Roles Effects Objects Capable Standing Symbolic

Author:Andre Breton

“Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.”

Ends Capable Tests Stronger Prepared Endure Trials Obedience Savior Gethsemane Golgotha

Author:Robert D. Hales

“We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”

May Two Ends States Risk Position Civilization Capable Killing Affair Bottles Anticipate Great Power Scorpions

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Trying Wells War Ends Black Capable Idiot Justify Rationale

Author:Immortal Technique

“Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.”

Men Ends Hours Talking Subjects Capable

Author:Curt Goetz

“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

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”

Ends States Law Freedom Capable Lawyer Preserves Abolish

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.”

Kind Ends Government Journey Capable Leaving

Author:Tony Blair

“He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.”

Wells Ends Might Beautiful Form Suffering Universe Strong Pure Capable Singing Absence Command Gates Files Diplomats Inconsequential

Book:A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage.”

Writing Humans Said Ends Lost Wish Lines Divine Hair Capable Significant Bridges Verses Foreigners Lifting Grasping Availability Odes Nordic

Author:Roberto Bolano

“Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.”

Years Persons Two Ends Stories Care Life Is Sin Worst Essentials Capable Understood Forgiving Active Pity Indifference Categories Divided Dislike Quests Parts Of Life

Book:Glass Soup

Source: Glass Soup

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”

Men Years Ends Remember Differences Sin Honest Honesty Proud Capable Weakness Deeds Being Honest Good Man Be Proud Good Deeds Honest Man Bad Man

Author:Vasily Grossman

“Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.”

World Ends Able Life Is Understanding Hours Ability Minutes One Day Capable Eternity Going Away Distraction Life Is Short Hinder

Book:The Orange Girl

Source: The Orange Girl

“Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.”

Ifs Knows Ends Sometimes Feelings Pain Love Is Alive Capable Chests Fooled

Book:F is for Fugitive

Source: F is for Fugitive

“To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.”

Knows Ends Self Order Lines Know How Becoming Capable Paint Oneself Gray Voyages Passengers Clandestine

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus

“Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they're not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; and as life goes on, he develops an ever-greater need to be loved in return, even if that means having to give up his power. We all end up where we are now: Grown-ups doing everything we can to be accepted and loved.”

People Ifs Want Needs Giving Believe Mean Children Ends Order Grows Realizing Powerful Growing Up Greater Goes On Return Giving Up Capable Accepted Fearless His Love Life Goes On Only Child

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.”

Ends Science Perfect Animal Hard Work Capable Machines Fuel Engines Destined Steam Expenditures Steam Engines

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule

“We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.”

Children Ends Earth Purpose Humanity Found Peace Millions Feet Capable Hundred Innovation Profound Hunger Flying Target Caps Missiles Distortion Landing

Author:Mark Hatfield

“We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.”

Ends Growth Company Economy Revolution Industry Creating Capable Innovation Continuous Learning Incrementalism

Author:Gary Hamel

“The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!”

People Want Ends Fighting Blood Military Capable Martyr

Author:Saddam Hussein