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Capable Quotes - II

Capable Quotes - II

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

2. 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

3. Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. - Vladimir Lenin

4. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. - Alexandre Dumas

5. The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. - John Keats

6. The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. - William Wordsworth

7. For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. - Lord Byron

8. Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now. - Cameron Diaz

9. One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage. - R. Buckminster Fuller

10. 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

11. We are the first species capable of self-annihilation. - Elon Musk

12. Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. - Plato.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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