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The verdict was extremely strict about proving psychological incapacity to resist. – Tomoko Murata	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin. – Agnes Repplier	added by anonymous 11 years ago
By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe. – Arabic Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. – Anais Nin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The verdict was extremely strict about proving psychological incapacity to resist.

– Tomoko Murata

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

– William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.

– Agnes Repplier

added by anonymous
11 years ago

By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.

– Arabic Proverb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

– Anonymous

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

– Anais Nin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

– Erich Fromm

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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