Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
I strongly believe that for the steel prices to be market-driven, without distortions, we need to substantially increase the production capacity.
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
Do according to your capability. Act according to your capacity. Go according to your curiosity. Be according to your possibility.
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
Jarvis: [Thor has just thrown a thunderbolt on Iron Man] Power to four-hundred percent capacity. Tony Stark: How about that?
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
