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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Being Capable Celebrating Form Groups Individual Little Novel Often Pair People Short Short Story Social Sort Story Think

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They're my best friends. We think of Gigi as the brains in the family - something most of the world doesn't know - and my favorite thing about Bella is that she's a free spirit who never lets anyone set limits for her. They can be really protective, but they've taught me not to let other people define what I'm capable of.

~Anwar Hadid

Topics: About Anyone Best Brains Capable Define Family Favorite Favorite Thing Free Free Spirit Friends Her Know Lets Limits Me Most Never Other People Protective Really Set She Something Spirit Taught Thing Think Who World

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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

~Aphra Behn

Topics: Capable Consuming Health Jealousy More Nothing Notions Our Reason Secret Solitude Than Troubling

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I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

~Ariel Pink

Topics: Actual Capable Generating Know Myself Never Press Record Stirring Thought Up You

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Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

~Aristotle

Topics: Animal Capable Common Faculty Him Instruction Man Many Memory Only Others Possess Reasoning Though

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Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.

~Armando Iannucci

Topics: Awareness Become Business Capable Governments Industry Left Models Networks Preferred Public Right Sensitivity Slightest Tv Wants Whether Without

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The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

~Armstrong Williams

Topics: Broader Capable Confront Destruction Effort Greatest Iraq Liberation Long Mass Mass Destruction Obtaining Part Range Rogue Security Seriously States Threat Weapons World

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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

~Arnold Schoenberg

Topics: Also Capable Cause Could Did Emotions Expressing Feelings Had Know Music Never Outlet Painting Renounce Something Versa Very Vice Vice Versa Way Whether Why Words

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The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

~Art Spiegelman

Topics: Ages Also Beautiful Been Being Book Books Capable Know Language Making Middle Middle Ages More New Off Our Phrase Physical Since Technology Than Them Threatens

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Abstract Capable Concrete Enjoying Happiness He Himself Human Longer Money Then Utterly Who

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