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Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.
Norman Davies
Both
Absorb
Underestimated
Discard
Cultures
Human
Capacity
Much
Societies
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
Norodom Sihanouk
Me
Protection
Organization
Argument
Exhausted
Every
State
Secretary
East
East Asia
John
Had
He
Cambodia
His
South
Place
Asia
Capacity
Persuade
Foster
Treaty
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
Orison Swett Marden
Happiness
Life
Beautiful
Better
Will
Increase
Only
Investment
Joys
Also
Make
Cultivation
Hues
Greatly
Efficiency
Than
Taste
Enduring
Capacity
Whole
Rainbow
Bring
Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
Orison Swett Marden
Glorious
Our
Evidence
Further
Possible
Dreaming
Gives
Realities
Capacity
Us
Await
Things
There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
Pallam Raju
Education
Will
Higher Education
Met
Whatever
Increasing
State
Definitely
Sector
Segment
Higher
Part
Private
Private Sector
Afford
Being
Public
Capacity
Large
Public Sector
Large Part
Technical
Need
The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
Patricia Cornwell
Always
Existed
Curious
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
Paul Farmer
Health
You
Competition
Build
Back
Resources
Mindless
System
Part
Without
Just
Want
Public
Capacity
Public Health
If you're content in WWE, then you have peaked. You have peaked in your own earning capacity for what you're going to bring home to your family, and you've peaked in what you offer to WWE in terms of your own talent to exploit.
Paul Heyman
Home
Family
You
Own
Earning
Talent
Terms
Content
WWE
Offer
Going
Capacity
Exploit
Then
Your
Peaked
Bring
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.
Paul Johnson
Leadership
Abyss
Nation
National
Past
President
Saw
Nixon
Gifts
Carter
Horrified
Resurgence
Ford
Reagan
Began
In The Past
Aftermath
Which
Ronald Reagan
Capacity
Elected
Whole
Shown
Reinvent
Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.
Paul Theroux
Alone
Food
Me
Patience
Travel
Listening
Strangers
Details
Borders
Unbelievable
Tales
Because
Am
Curiosity
Experiences
Anyone
Capacity
Choose
Traveling
Why
Lives
Tedium
The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
Pauline Neville-Jones
World
Achieve
Leader
Our
Security
Objective
Shared
Industry
Capacity
Should
World Leader
British
I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.
Pete Coors
Country
Some
Always
Wanted
Capacity
Serve
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.
Pete Hegseth
Fashion
Veterans
Made
Defense
Defense Budget
Preserving
Changes
Spending
Case
Could
Budget
Unsustainable
Concerned
Genuinely
Targeted
Reform
America
While
Capacity
While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.
Peter A. Levine
Events
Stress
Nervous
System
Threatening
Nervous System
Studying
Most
Began
Effects
Accumulate
Suspect
While
Capacity
Organisms
Rebound
Innate
Stressful
We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.
Peter Baynham
Strange
Men
Live
Heroic
Our
Those
Giant
High
Cost
Only
Weighing
Bought
Piled
Go
Sale
Friendless
Wonder
Stone
Eight
Flats
Chipping
Capacity
Who
Eventually
Away
Players
The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
Peter Eisenman
Lost
TV
TV Set
Guy
Tactile
Environment
Headphones
React
Front
Capacity
Who
Set
If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.
Peter Hammill
Thankful
Me
You
Heart
Think
Mine
Kind
About
Given
Attack
Output
Write
Perform
Affected
Lot
Going
Capacity
You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough skills.
Peter Maurer
You
Money
Rebuild
Enough
Enough Money
Syria
Development
Expect
Agencies
Capacity
Skills
Humanitarian
I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.
Piyush Goyal
Good
Power
Promise
India
More
Investors
Over
Crying
Households
Surplus
Get
Them
Capacity
Means
Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
Piyush Goyal
Control
Extra
Pricing
Makes
Capacity
Manufacturing
Keeps
Competitive
Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
Rachel Sklar
Good
Amazing
Twitter
Incredible
Tool
Public
Capacity
Public Good
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman
Christmas
Art
Religion
Science
Youth
Our
Has-Been
Born
Faculty
Most
Been
Stirring
Wonder
Human
Capacity
Pregnant
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Ray Kurzweil
Achieve
Will
About
Computers
Brain
Personal
Human
Human Brain
Capacity
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
Rene Cassin
Life
Beginning
Active
Entered
Only
Shall
Somewhat
Outset
Involvement
Confess
Precocious
After
Capacity
Century
I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'
Reuven Rivlin
Myself
Politician
Politicians
Other
Back
Say
See
Hold
Former
Capacity
The United States is not just another country. It has more capacity and potential to influence the world than any other country - and no other country has the resources and mindset to lead a world that is not on autopilot.
Richard N. Haass
World
Country
Other
Resources
Mindset
States
More
Potential
Lead
Another
Than
Any
Any Other Country
Just
Influence
Capacity
United
United States
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