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“Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.”

“In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.”

Use Desire Opportunity Individual Nations Interest Quality Capacity Employment Outlets Great Society

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.”

Men Humans Made Self Use Human Beings Stupid Self Improvement Capacity Tools Regard Instruments Improvement Makers Autonomy Binding Initiation Short Sighted

Book:Manhood of humanity

Source: Manhood of humanity

“America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems - ballistic missiles - that had been prohibited by the United Nations.”

“A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.”

Writing Littles Use Written Thousand Capacity

Book:A Writer's Diary

Source: A Writer's Diary

“To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.”

Men Humans Use Work Duty Development Men And Women Capacity Faculty Human Development

Book:Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.”

“All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.”

Doe Use Destiny Succeed Capacity This Life Reaching Native Inherent Greatest Success

Author:Smiley Blanton

“I dont believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, youre in trouble.”

Ifs Needs Believe Use Trouble Capacity Rounds Magazines Hunts Deer

Author:Bob Menendez

“Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.”

Thinking Children Use Brain Taught Capacity Discouraged Daydreaming

Author:Tony Buzan

“I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.”

Ifs Persons Stills Use Age Wanted Creative Type Capacity Substance Be Creative Sober

Author:Macklemore

“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.”

Giving Use Poetry Turns Reading Literature Language Process Practice Poet Reader Projects Concepts Capacity Heal Division Accommodate Heal Itself

Author:Don Paterson

“An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.”

Mind Use Choices Race Talking Wise Modern Civilization Resources Capacity Artistic Our Time Rats Avoiding Our Love Rat Race Modern Civilization Wise Choices

Book:Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down

Source: Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down

“Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.”

People Thinking World Humans Use Earth Purpose Certain Given Human Beings Forget Capacity Originals Betray Humankind Restraint Arbitrary

Author:Pope John Paul II

“It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Use Remember Teaching Materials Easier Capacity Lists Teaching Learning

Book:Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century

Source: Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century

“I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.”

People Thinking World Needs Humans Has Beens Use Past Spirituality Lost Planets Capacity Contrary Nuclear Eras Desperate Goddess Bonding Save The Planet

Author:Isabel Allende

“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.”

“I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.”

Ifs Thinking Use Asks Can Do Wonder Creativity Computer Capacity Remarkable Capability Fractions Personal Computers

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes

“Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.”

Use Desire Given Ability Principles Depends Capacity Obsession Burning Affirmation Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Self Talk Burning Desire Desire To Win

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?”

Wells Use Able Form Used Term Issues Influence Effects Capacity Direct Latin Posse Use Of Power

Author:Al Gini

“Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.”

Humans Use Earth Conditions Changed Capacity Human Life

Author:J. William Fulbright

“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.”

“Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.”

Way Use Able Spirit Language Ready Habit Ten Capacity Twenties Dollars Cute Bias Tempted Pretentious Handy

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.”

“Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.”

Men Use Purpose Force Acting Capacity Murder Destroying Killers Premises Initiate Use Of Force

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.”

People Use Trump Becoming Capacity Bigotry Isis Bluster

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedomis becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.”

World Needs Should Ideas Self Use Forget This World Becoming Elements Resources Capacity Locals Relevant Globalization

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.”

Knows Facts Use Ability Capacity Presenting Subjectivity

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.”

Doe Use Home Mother Healing Example Capacity India Claims Medical Wounds Heal Grandmother Herbs Mississippi Patents Mother And Grandmother Jaundice

Author:Vandana Shiva

“There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.”

“We have to use our reasoning capacity and set long-term goals based on our deepest values.”

Long Use Values Goal Term Capacity Long Term Reasoning Long Term Goals

Author:Al Gore

“The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.”

Life Use Happiness Success Truth Is Capacity This Life Native Congratulations Greatest Success

Book:Love or Perish [Expanded Edition]

Source: Love or Perish [Expanded Edition]

“When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.”

Humans Use Humanity Belief Speak Human Beings Evolution Standards Ordinary Capacity Determine Available Stores Experts Appropriate My Thoughts Testimony Unqualified

Author:Ernest Sosa

“I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's so, it would mean that the speakers of this language aren't making use of a capacity that they surely have, a normal situation; plenty of people throughout history would drown if they fall into water.”

People Ifs Mean Use Fall Language Water Numbers Situation Havens Normal Capacity Claims Sentences Plenty Speakers Finite Recursion Finite Number

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.”

People Country Use Joy Spirit Black Moral Creativity Weapons Capacity Clarity African American Black People Boundless Hallelujah American Spirit

Author:Van Jones

“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.”

People Thinking Feels Important Use Running Life Is Loses Walks Capacity Realising Life Is Short

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.”

Ifs Needs Soul Use Wisdom Capacity Athlete Worthy Opponents Worthy Opponents

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.”

“I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.”

Thinking Men Book Use Light Might Lost Ability Brain Achieve Information Civilization Band Red Capacity Dues Range Perceive Visible Rays Hung Violet Vibrations Supremacy Visible Light

Author:John Wyndham

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”

Inspirational Play Use Order Creativity Creative Solitude Quiet Capacity Overcoming Introvert Constructive Being Alone Creative People Creative Person Quiet People Being Quiet Fear Of Being Alone

Author:Rollo May

“For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.”

Use Purpose Moral Technology Century Capacity Sophisticated

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.”

Ifs Use Desire Certain Given Clear Judging Capacity Faculty Deceiving Leading Me

Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations

Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations

“All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.”

Long Enough Use Lying Natural Half Trouble Tree Wind Lessons Capacity Green Instinct Blow Charm Get Away Spheres Green Trees

Book:The Essential Margaret Fuller

Source: The Essential Margaret Fuller

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

Enough Character Use Purpose Leadership Ability Leader Power Willing Capacity Will Power

Book:Motivation Lombardi Style

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.”

Ifs Ends Use Science Humanity Grows Growth Progress Conditions Capacity Accidents Faculty Organs Diminish Adapted Inference

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.”

Giving Has Beens Use Science Used Animal Development Evolution Limits Capacity Disappear Permanent Length Organs Diminish

Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.”

“The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.”

Men Children Art Play Moments Use Fun Animal Source Art Is Capacity Tools Productions Uniqueness Hunters Caves Ceilings Unfolding Playgrounds Optimal Creativeness Milieu Mural

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything, This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.”

Ifs Use Grows Powerful Attitude Practice Gratitude Blessing Draws Capacity Stronger Grateful Muscles Most Powerful Be Grateful Behalf Unnoticed Gratefulness

Author:Alan Cohen