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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy, Insecurity, Person

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Few, Social, Opinions

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Brave, Coward

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm

Selfish, Others, Themselves

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee

Truth, Outside, Patterns

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde

Learning, Everybody, Taken

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

History, Experience, Learning

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan

Today, Country, After

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager

Happy, Lazy, Ungrateful

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Soren Kierkegaard

Time, Through, Childhood

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Small, Become, Minds

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal

Made, Study, Whole

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Become, Themselves

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Others, Suspect

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin

Change, Art, Thought

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Simone de Beauvoir

Accept, Infinity, Conceiving

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Him, Makes, Perfection

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin

Struggle, Evil, Understand

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.
Jose Saramago

Understand, Difficult, Accepting

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe

Become, Ignorant, Corrupt

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Why, Far

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Lord Chesterfield

Give, Sometimes, Advice

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere

Great, Solitude, Misfortune

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel

Society, Give, Destiny

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

End, Political, Democracy

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Sarah Bernhardt

Good, Anger, Strong

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
Henri Poincare

Mind, Guilty, Minds

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
Thomas Frank

Government, Giving, Leave

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
Barbara Jordan

Women, Cannot, Compassion

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