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Prayer begins where human capacity ends. -- Marian Anderson
The human capacity to be curious has always existed. -- Patricia Cornwell
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. -- Harold Nicolson
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. -- Steven Pinker
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. -- Katherine Dunn
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them. -- Leonard Mlodinow
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. -- Isabel Allende
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. -- Eliot Spitzer
I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. -- J. K. Rowling
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular. -- Orhan Pamuk
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. -- Joshua Foer
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Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness. -- Bill Hybels
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion. -- Roger Cohen
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception. -- Gertrude Atherton
The human heart has a staggering capacity for love. -- Helen Beardsley
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The capacity of a human community to shape it's future. -- Peter Senge
The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant. -- Denis Dutton
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." -- Michel de Montaigne
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. -- Virginia Woolf
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial. -- David Byrne
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. -- Michael Shermer
It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another. -- Jennifer Stone
We've seen what about 50% of our human capacity can accomplish. Visualize what 100% can do. -- Warren Buffett
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something. -- Edna Adan Ismail
The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things. -- Helen Keller
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. -- Margot Asquith
None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity. -- Said Musa
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. -- Ben Lerner
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves -- Stephen Hawking
The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right. -- Nelson Mandela
Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty. -- Bill Jensen
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. -- William Godwin
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. -- Ray Kurzweil
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have. -- Leigh Steinberg
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. -- Wilhelm Reich
When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day. -- Seth Lloyd
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. -- Arthur Koestler
When admiring human accomplishments we should not confusethe achievements of the few for the capacity of the many. -- Geoffroy Birtz
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements. -- Erich Fromm
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. -- Michael J. Gelb
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. -- Jodi Picoult
We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity. -- Justin Sane
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. -- Amanda Lindhout
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? -- Ann Druyan
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being. -- Robert Breault
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
God's greatest gift is to endow human beings with the capacity to perceive - and the create - holiness. -- David J. Wolpe
This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person. -- Paulo Freire
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty -- Thabo Mbeki
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. -- Desmond Tutu
A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet -- Tony Juniper
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. -- Rollo May
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness. -- R. J. Palacio
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- -- Abraham Verghese
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. -- H. L. Mencken
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar. -- Jeanette Winterson
All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift. -- Peter Senge
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. -- Parker J. Palmer
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Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent. -- Pierre Levy
God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . . -- Pope Paul III
Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. -- Lewis Thomas
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide. -- Boyd K. Packer
We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, "This is a new day." -- Jack Kornfield
[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation. -- Bertrand Russell
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. -- Robert A. Heinlein
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles. -- Marilyn Ferguson
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder -- Ronald Reagan
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. -- R. D. Laing
Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous. -- BrenÃ© Brown
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. -- Richard Dawkins
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings. -- Rollo May
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. -- Betty Friedan
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge. -- Martin Seligman
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb. -- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity. -- David Hume
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Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. -- George Nelson
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. -- John Twelve Hawks
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. -- Noam Chomsky
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous. -- Jon Ronson
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity "¦ I think that's what being really human means. -- Gustave Flaubert
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it. -- H. H. Asquith
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. -- Robin Marantz Henig
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. -- Norman Cousins
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love. -- Eknath Easwaran
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes. -- Bruce Mau
It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings. -- Tony Robbins
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity. -- Muhammad Yunus
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself. -- Will Self
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand. -- Rodney Stark
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us. -- Diana Trilling
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. -- J. William Fulbright
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation. -- Daniel Goleman
Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems. -- Muhammad Yunus
Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them. -- William E. Rees
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time. -- Jean Houston
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today. -- William V. Shannon
I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity. -- Ken Robinson
The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction. -- Gelek Rimpoche
Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity. -- Robert Muller
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive? -- Lois McMaster Bujold

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