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“A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.”

Loss Levels Judging Anxiety Majors Capacity Criteria

Book:A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

Source: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

“Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.”

Men Should Believe Reason Facts Eye Strong Sex Women Justice Loss Careers Seeing Policy Capacity Males Average Equality Foolish Vigor Public Policy

Author:Thomas Huxley

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“I'm hoping to know and teach a Gospel that is true to Scripture - and the Gospel that I see in the Bible is COSMIC (big enough to redeem all of Creation) and RELATIONAL (getting at the root of the Fall - the loss of our relational capacities).”

Knows Enough Bigs Fall Loss Teach Creation Capacity Roots Scripture Cosmic

Author:Peter Robinson

“Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!”

People May Has Beens Today Past Interest Loss Fashion Capacity Caught Cynicism Our Past Baggage Loss Of Faith

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.”

Source: The History of Love: A Novel