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“To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.”

Mean Has Beens Different Science Understanding Ability Flower Capacity Stones Tasks Ill Sufficient Honour Shells Lowest Newton Unworthy Labourers

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.”

Knows Different Differences Taste Capacity Temperament Digestion Different Tastes

Author:Ramakrishna

“Men and women both have an equal capacity to make money, but they want money for different reasons. Men want money for power and women want it for comfort, and usually not their own comfort, but the comfort of others in their lives.”

Men Want Different Reason Comfort Equal Men And Women Capacity Making Money Women Want

Author:Suze Orman

“Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.”

Looks Art Different Dream Lying Art Is Capacity Mirrors Expensive Scandalous

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

Humans Stills I Can Different Age Certain Cases Painting Singing Capacity Tradition Dancing Profession Make Sense Human Capacity

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.”

Kind Mean Different Action Political Used Results Power Military Position Source Weapons Capacity Police Including Chosen Destroyed Opponents Repression Opposing

Author:Gene Sharp

“Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.”

Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

“The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.”

Humans Made Different Might Belief Goal Levels Talking Divine Higher Empathy Capacity Connections Unions Doctrine Theme Ritual Dogma Higher Level Recurring Recurring Themes

Author:Richard Rohr

“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”

“I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.”

Giving Feels Persons Different Would Be Chance Danger Offers Capacity Wings Spread Different Directions

Author:Alicia Keys

“The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.”

“Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.”

Men Firsts Different Three Capacity Thirds Useless Excellent Explanation Commendable

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world ... we need to reflect on our accountability before those who will have to endure the dire consequences.”

World Needs Different Change Planets Waste Consequence Areas Capacity Environmental Endure Lifestyle Contemporary Accountability Pace Consumption Catastrophe Environmental Change

Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

“Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.”

“I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.”

“Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It is an important question, because we can investigate what is the difference between the brain of a mouse and ours, and of course the difference is enormous, in size and capacity.”

Thinking Should Humans Important Different Courses Differences Brain Capacity Size Enormous Mice Human Brain Important Questions Vertebrates

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.”

Men Feels Believe Different Body Political Social Brain Imagine Example Habit Capacity Ideology Manners Political Systems Tuning Jaguars

Author:Rodolfo Llinas

“I've never worked with prosthetics before in that sort of capacity. I did a bit of prosthetic work when I had to give birth in Jude, which is quite a different set of prosthetics. But I had so much admiration for the hair and make-up department and the prosthetics team, who are actually based at Shepperton, and who put together that look for Hanna. I”

Giving Looks Different Together Bits Team Hair Birth Capacity Department Admiration Prosthetics

Author:Kate Winslet

“I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.”

People Thinking Different Behavior Capacity Different Things Contradictory

Author:Richard Ayoade

“In an industry that has the capacity underutilization that we have, why wouldn't we? It's just common sense. Apparently they're successful (in Canada). Our standard approach is not to cookie cut things. Every market is different, every theater is different. The devil's in the details.”

Different Common Successful Cutting Industry Approach Standards Devil Capacity Theater Details Common Sense Canada Cookies

Author:Gerry Lopez

“As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. Whenever my organization starts to settle I believe I have to lift my lid, my capacity I have to think and act in a different way to achieve different results.”

Thinking Way Believe Different I Believe Results Leader Achieve Capacity Organization Mindset Lifts Settling Different Ways Changing Your Mind

Author:Craig Groeschel

“I just gravitated toward (working behind the scenes by) growing up on the different sets and watching my father and other people in their different capacities...When I was 13 years old, I asked for a Super 8 camera.”

People Years Different Father Behinds Growing Up Growing Scene Capacity Cameras Behind The Scenes Working Behind The Scenes

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“Developing the capacity for clear light dreams is similar to developing the capacity of abiding in the non-dual presence of rigpa during the day. In the beginning, rigpa and thought seem different, so that in the experience of rigpa there is no thought, and if thought arises we are distracted and lose rigpa. But when stabliity in rigpa is developed, thought simply arises and dissolves without in the least obscuring rigpa; the practitioner remains in non-dual awareness.”

Ifs Different Dream Light Seems Loses Clear Awareness Capacity Remains Arise Developing Distracted Abiding

Book:The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours.”

Different Hard Levels Comfort Unique Training Capacity Runners

Author:Hal Higdon

“Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.”

Art Different Philosophy Form Understanding Differences Art Is Capacity Mathematics Contemporary Different Things

Author:Robert Longo

“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.”

Way Should Different Together Eternal Capacity Empty Profound Awakening Tension Remarkable Capture Earnest Mockery Detached Resonance Jest Earnestness Insipid Brash

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I believe the advantage music has is the capacity to multiply itself, the capacity to keep itself in space and access itself at different times and in different processes and to make profound analyses, analyses that through musicality would be able to connect with people who don't necessarily have the energy or wish in any exact moment to connect to well-read or critical analysis.”

People Believe Wells Different Moments Would Be Able Energy I Believe Wish Process Space Advantage Capacity Profound Critical Access Analysis Different Times Musicality Critical Analysis

Author:Bocafloja

“There are five of us. We've all played in various bands together, in different combinations. I know that Todd [Cook] and Tony [Bailey] are my favorite rhythm section - they're just like a unit. I guess we've all just played together in various capacities, so when the band was coming together, it was sort of like we just chose members because they had similar sensibilities and also because they're just cool. We all got along real well.”

Knows Wells Different Real Together Five Band Members Capacity My Favorite Various Rhythm Combination Cooks Sensibility Units Sections Coming Together Rhythm Section

Author:David Pajo

“I had an unbelievable opportunity here to try and follow in similar footsteps [of Michael Jordan], but in a different capacity hopefully. I took that opportunity and I'm excited about it.”

Trying Different Opportunity Capacity Excited Hopefully Unbelievable Jordan Footsteps

Author:Dwyane Wade

“In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to benefit from what they were learning in a more advanced capacity. With a small group like that, there was a lot of one-to-one teaching.”

Thinking May Has Beens Different Age School Groups Teaching Benefits Advantage Capacity Small Groups Elementary School Different Ages

Author:Paul Smith

“There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.”

Different Certain Wife Mines Capacity My Wife Tricks Compatibility

Author:Ian Bogost

“I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.”

Different Issues Streets Wall Amount Capacity Investing Presidency

Author:Barack Obama

“Russia could be, in fact, it would have to be a different Russia, but it could be a splendid ally. I will say this for the Russians: on their - in their favor, they have the intellectual capacity and the habits of mind to act in the world on a strategic scale, and were they do to so in service of a better cause than their current set of grievances, they would be a natural partner.”

World Mind Different Facts Would Be Causes Natural Habit Intellectual Capacity Currents Partners Favors Scales Russia Allies Splendid Strategic Grievance Habits Of Mind

Author:Daniel Fried

“I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I have lived long enough and served in enough different capacities to have removed from my mind, if such were necessary, any doubt of the divinity of this, the work of God. We respect those of other churches. We desire their friendship and hope to render meaningful service with them. We know they all do good, but we unabashedly state—and this frequently brings criticism upon us—that this is the true and living Church of our Father in Heaven and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.”

Source: The Fall of the House of Usher

“You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”

“Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of the people who have need of these aids? They are human beings and want only to be treated as ordinary people. They may appear different, move awkwardly, and speak haltingly, but they have the same feelings. ... They want to be loved for what they are inside, without any prejudice for their impairment. Can there not be more tolerance for differences-differences in capacity, differences in body and in mind?”

“On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.”

Life Different Stories Might Earth Science Grows Perfect Records Planets Diversity Capacity Defined Acceptable Fossils Physicist Diversity Of Life

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“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”

“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.”

Source: James Madison's

“Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.”

Different Government Political Rights Dangerous Capacity Function Constitution Perceive Department Annoying Judiciary Political Rights

Book:The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793

Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793

“Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.”

Needs Kind Different Soul Reading Language Awareness Communication Spring Capacity Metaphor Trauma Rhythm Concentration Devices Different Kinds Perpetual Ongoing Primal Syntax Stop Time

Author:Sven Birkerts

“I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.”

Thinking Different Running Couple Married Capacity Married Couples

Author:Isla Fisher