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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about man

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Quote by Benedetto Croce about action, thinking, mind

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Quote by Shana Alexander about opinion, miracle

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

Quote by John Abizaid about security, americans, time

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

Quote by John Abizaid about security, concentration, force

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

Quote by Gerry Adams

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Quote by Winston Churchill about unforeseen, genius

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about survival, tools, fight, violence, human imperfections

This is difficult because so many of us are convinced that women are incapable of aggression on the same scale as men - that women are physically too weak, or are inherently, biologically different in aggressive capacity, or are spiritually...

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, man

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Quote by William Godwin about power

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Quote by Henry Ford about infinite, man

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Quote by Aldous Huxley about people, infinite, human imperfections, things

A computer that has surpassed its user's frustration capacity (FC) will accelerate downwards at 9.8 meters per second squared.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation, things

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us.

Quote by Soledad O'Brien about opinion, cruelty

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Quote by Erich Fromm about creation, science, art, magic

Man himself, if he hadn’t the psychological capacity to deny, he couldn’t understand the world, as the entire world is a big denial which continuously denies itself.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about man, world

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

Quote by Giovanni Papini about love

The smile expresses our capacity of being open and forgiving.

Quote by Iulian Andrei about smile, being