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“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.”

Humans Two Humor Seems Funny Purpose Human Beings Animal Party Greater Example Capacity Dinner Invention Boredom Bores Epic Metaphysics Dinner Party Epic Poems

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.”

Children Two Passion Grows Loses Growing Up Tears Sorrow Capacity Function Rage Manage Manners Grieving Civilized

Book:Brief lives

Source: Brief lives

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”

Men Art Two Three Ability Talent He Man Materials Genius Ten Perception Ordinary Capacity Plus Multiple Register Ordinary Man

Author:Ezra Pound

“We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”

“Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.”

Thinking Years Two Lasts Space Millions Changed Civilization Capacity Years Ago Intelligent Destructive Signals Dna Jungle Outer Space Likelihood

Author:Stephen Hawking

“It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.”

Firsts Two Ideas Facts Problem Grows Education Responsibility Conditions Information Students Capacity Productions Active Range Two Things Quests New Ideas Educator Learners

Book:Experience And Education

Source: Experience And Education

“Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.”

“Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.”

“Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.”

May Two Joy Sides Wonder Promise Despair Capacity Coins Spinning Restoration Two Sides

Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

“A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.”

Giving Two Important Character One Thing Activity Capacity Performances Scripts Screens Theatrical

Author:Toni Servillo

“Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.”

People Art Two Turns Space Environment Streets Capacity Surface Sculpture Confined Installation

Author:Mark Jenkins

“I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.”

Years Two Jobs Acting Class Capacity My Family Quitting Two Years I Quit Acting Classes

Author:Jay Ellis

“Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.”

Two Sometimes Greater Ignorance Drink Paper Smart Capacity Average British London Journalist Latter Splits Papers Sloth Aversion Hacks Mendacity Smart Money Obsequiousness

Author:Larry King

“In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.”

Stills Two Important Imagination Quality Despair Goodness Capacity Stress Remembered Features Suspects Division

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.”

Men World Two States Reason Born Answers Awareness Capacity Overcoming Harmony Unity Oneness Involvement Egocentric Separateness Capacity To Love Regression

Book:Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

Source: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

“Barack Obama has done something I find very hard to understand. Ever since FDR, we`ve had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once, and he`s saying, No, we`re going to cut that back to only one conflict.”

Two Hard Done President Cutting Conflict Capacity Barack Engaged Saying No President Barack Obama

Author:Mitt Romney

“That being said, in my top five favorite movies, two of them are Alien and Aliens. I love to laugh, and I love to make people laugh. I love comedy, but I also love the darker things in life. I guess I'm an extremist. I'm an adrenaline junkie. Just cruising along at a normal capacity really doesn't do anything for me.”

People Said Two Laughing Five Comedy Normal Capacity Aliens Things In Life Extremist Making People Laugh Adrenaline Junkie

Author:Angie Harmon

“To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.”

Two Certain Given Environment Talent Capacity Fortune Combination Inward Maximum Wisest

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“It's a world creation show [Shadowhunters], so we've gotta work hard in the physical production capacity with the visual effects, the sets and everything. It's not just the real world with two people chatting in a diner. That's tough on a television budget.”

People World Two Real Hard Shows Effects Creation Television Hard Work Tough Capacity Productions Budgets Visuals Real World Shadowhunters Diners Chatting Visual Effects

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.”

Two Challenges Brain Capacity Genes

Author:Philippa Perry

“My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.”

“So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.”

Ifs Men Way Firsts Two House President White Return Capacity Bills Clinton Former White House Spouse Two Ways

Author:Terry Gross

“Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those two things ever conflicted? Would we be the brave ones who still found the capacity for love - and for laughter - even while we were terrified?”

Ifs Stills Two Order Found Principles Pieces Hero Laughter Capacity Brave Sticks Two Things Coward Terrified

Author:Chris Cleave

“It's rare that you have a conflict and two people or two groups who are equally mature in their desire or capacity to get there. That doesn't mean it can't happen. What it means is that one person has to take the lead, has to be bigger. I call that kind of person the new first responder.”

People Firsts Kind Mean Persons Two Happens Desire Groups Conflict Capacity Bigger Mature That One Person

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.”

Should Mind Two States President Activity Capacity Letters Affair Agents Internals Agreement Representatives Interfere Maxims Franklin Signing Internal Affairs President Roosevelt

Author:Joseph Stalin

“To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.”

“Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.”

Two Peace Capacity Ruined Bathroom

Author:Margaret Mead

“Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.”

Two Important Country States Politics United United States Percent Capacity Western Statements Japan Allies Two Countries

Author:Dan Quayle

“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”

Source: Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader

“Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a little too much to drink on a second date and wept inconsolably while revealing how simply damaged one was, while nonetheless retaining an uncommonly large capacity for love. That kind of thing was, while regrettable, at least comprehensible. But waking up with someone generationally inappropriate, like your grandfather's best buddy?”

Kind Littles Made Two Decision Morning Too Much Drink Capacity Wake Up Waking Grandfather Exes Revealing Buddy Inappropriate Retaining Best Buddies

Book:You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas

“Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.”

Two Seems Joy Values Felt Marriage Land Strange Capacity Decided Stranger Lists Intimacy Two Things Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Richard Bach

“in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.”

Two Reason Character Turns Courses Natural Objects Spring Capacity Educational Very Strong Lectures

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).”

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.”

Two Enough Use Political Given Sides Term Perfect Race Liberty Modern Capacity Slavery Slave Maintaining Political Science Standpoint Declaring

Author:Charles Edward Merriam

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