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I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
by Kathleen Turner (Actor, American , born in 1954) keywords: because, being, benefit, capacity, everyone, father, find, honor, must, old-fashioned, public, servant, serve, society, some, thought, very, ways , which Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
by Desmond Tutu (Leader, South African , born in 1931) keywords: capacity, children, expose, extraordinary, gift, heart, humbug, into, see, sham, things , wonderful The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
by Mark Udall (Politician, American , born in 1950) keywords: army, capacity, congress, globally, iraq, marines, meet, more, move, national, needs, new, our, quickly, rebuild, security, send, strengthen, threats , troops There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
by Miguel de Unamuno (Educator, Spanish , born in 1864) keywords: anguish, capacity, choose, divine, either, greater, happiness, his, love, man, more, rather, save, suffering, true, which , world I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
by Alfred de Vigny (Poet, French , born in 1797) keywords: adaptation, after, capacity, chain, could, events, experience, facts, first, fuller, grouping, having, his, links, longing, man, satisfied, sight, some, something, take, then, think, vast, wanted , which Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
by Judith Viorst (Author, American , born in 1932) keywords: bar, bare, break, capacity, chocolate, eat, four, hands, into, just, pieces, strength, then , your I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.
by Gerald Walpin (Public Servant , American) keywords: because, capacity, continue, his, never, obama, president, say, serve, statement, states , would The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
by Robert Penn Warren (Novelist, American , born in 1905) topics: Poetry keywords: capacity, end, life, light, little, making, man, may, meaningful, myth, poem, rather, see, thing , which In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
by Alan Watts (Philosopher, English , born in 1915) keywords: aggressive, altering, america, capacity, gone, had, history, known, nobody, states, such, than, united, universe , way No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
by Alan Watts (Philosopher, English , born in 1915) keywords: capacity, fear, flourish, future, guilt, heart, just, living, love, made, now, out, plans, those, valid, will , work Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.
by Henry Waxman (Politician, American , born in 1939) keywords: any, biological, capacity, chemical, course, demanded, destroy, disarm, every, his, hussein, nuclear, over, past, refused, resolution, saddam, significant, systematically, un, violated, weapons , years 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.
by Margaret J. Wheatley (Writer , American) keywords: appears, bosses, capacity, choose, control, destroyed, even, leaders, motivation, organization, over, power, productivity, rather, than, though, well, work, worker , would In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
by Margaret J. Wheatley (Writer , American) keywords: anger, angry, capacity, daily, deceitful, distrust, encounter, greed, intent, life, losing, much, needs, only, our, own, pettiness, satisfying, their, together, well , work Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: ability, act, apprehend, apprehended, capacity, distinct, form, intelligence, quickness, thing, which , wisely To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
by Rowan D. Williamskeywords: action, cannot, capacity, confined, essential, gift, health, help, liberty, long, needful, offer, offered, own, poor, poverty, something, theirs, well , which The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.
by Girma Woldegiorgis (Statesman, Ethiopian , born in 1924) keywords: capacity, doubt, farmers, financial, government, greater, institutions, labour, only, play, role, supportive, than, value , which I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
by A. B. Yehoshua (Novelist, Israeli , born in 1936) keywords: began, capacity, claim, contribute, even, losing, other, our, part, peoples, think, were , zionism
