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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
War
Strength
Survival
People
Strong
Amazing
Awesome
Hidden
Know
Until
Forced
Renewal
How
Amazing Things
Tragedy
Times
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
Forward
Even
Things
Bring
Necessity
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
Innovation
Invention
Power
Imagination
Only
Arguably
Never
Shared
Empathize
Envision
Most
Enables
Human
Experiences
Human Capacity
Transformative
Which
Capacity
Us
Therefore
Uniquely
Whose
Humans
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
Joy
Collective
Think
Back
Say
Evolutionary
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Tend
Generating
Go
Years
Tragic
Human
Human Capacity
Which
Capacity
Use
Appears
Techniques
Hardwired
Biologists
If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity.
George M. Church
You
Change
Control
Kind
Fine
Over
Genome
Inexpensive
Very
Accurate
Get
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
Organism
Your
Extending
Fundamentally
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
Memories
Photography
Made
Few
Our
Press
Easier
Invented
Computer
Outsource
Over
Alphabet
Printing
Printing Press
Human
Essentially
Human Capacity
Scroll
Capacity
Us
Series
Fundamental
Millennia
Technologies
Last
The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
Patricia Cornwell
Always
Existed
Curious
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Steven Pinker
Compassion
Living
Another
Reflex
Human
Automatically
Human Capacity
Capacity
Thing
Presence
Living Thing