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“It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.”

Ifs States Fall Opportunity United United States Capacity Dollars Income

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.”

Mind States Eye Form Sound Seeing Movement Capacity Ears Hearing Tongue Noses Manifestation Flavor Limitless Tasting Odor

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating capacity grew from 7,600 megawatts in 1997 to 9,600 in 1998, an expansion of 26 percent. At a national level, Germany led the way, adding 790 megawatts of capacity, followed by Spain with 380 megawatts, and the United States with 226 megawatts. In the past, U.S. wind generating capacity was concentrated in California, but in 1998, wind farms began generating electricity in Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming, broadening the new industry's geographical base.”

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.”

Source: My Own Words

“The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.”

People Men States Natural United Brain United States Capitalism Resources Capacity Arise Finance Productive Imperfection Tolerate Natural Resources Brain Power Deep Depression

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.”

Source: A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine

“The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.”

World States Evil Nations Capacity Thirds Good And Evil Transforming Third World

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations