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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Alone, Living

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing, Afraid, Getting

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

Past, Others, Moral

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

Person, Culture, Process

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo

Free, Poverty, Enduring

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke

Democracy, Cruel, Majority

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.
Danica McKellar

Respect, Smart, Yourself

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli

Politics, Political, Act

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes

Love, Important, Story

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

Become, Created

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir

Fear, Woman, Feeling

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Steve Prefontaine

Work, Art, Ways

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature, Good, Seems

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke

Freedom, End, Law

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Small, Seems

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis

Anger, Heart, Past

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardner

Free, Creative, Accept

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard Dawkins

Natural, Existence, Theory

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody

Faith, Religion, Children

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before, Perfect, Everyone

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Courage, Perfect, Looking

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil

Giving, Attention, Unhappy

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

Education, Children, Honesty

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Good, Job

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
Dolly Parton

Off, Won, Agree

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes

Greatest, Minds, Virtues

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse

Mind, Line, Beyond

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten

Happiness, Brains, Hearts

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
Pedro Martinez

Health, God, Everything

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