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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. -- Anais Nin
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. -- Polly Toynbee
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. -- William Blake
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. -- Robinson Jeffers
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. -- Immanuel Kant
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. -- Emile M. Cioran
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. -- Arthur Erickson
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. -- Edwin Booth
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. -- Alan Keyes
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. -- Ambrose Bierce
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere -- Paulo Coelho
Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. -- Ambrose Bierce
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. -- Erich Fromm
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. -- Bill Watterson
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me, -- Pope Benedict XVI
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. -- Lord Melbourne
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are. -- Paulo Coelho
We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right. -- David Cameron
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt. -- Chris Hedges
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin -- Agnes Repplier
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?" -- Tony Buzan
Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.' -- Piet Mondrian
Beggars market their incapacity. -- Mason Cooley
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. -- Roland Barthes
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. -- Emile Zola
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. -- G.K. Chesterton
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. -- Doris Lessing
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. -- Quintilian
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. -- G.K. Chesterton
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. -- Idries Shah
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. -- Idries Shah
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. -- Aldous Huxley
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President. -- William C. Bryant
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous -- Thomas Bernhard
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'. -- Idries Shah
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. -- Lord Chesterfield
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems. -- John Lancaster Spalding
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. -- George Bernard Shaw
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? -- Yann Martel
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made. -- Rico Lebrun
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently. -- Abraham Kaplan
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves -- Carl Jung
You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world. -- Peter Schjeldahl
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes. -- Fernando Pessoa
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life. -- Sophie Barthes
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out. -- Agnes Repplier
While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses. -- Eli Broad
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute. -- Emile M. Cioran

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