"Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized."

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Simone de Beauvoir

#Capability Quotes

“Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.”
“I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.”
“Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.”

Source : "Lobsters and Lies" by Madeleine Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2011.
“What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?”
“The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.”
“But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace.”

Source : "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.
“From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.”
“I think it's just as viable a way of telling a story as anything else but for right now we like playing around with the new ways to do 3-D because I think it's only going to get better. I think that eventually we'll come home, we'll sit in our living room and there will be a little hologram that'll pop up and you'll watch these 3-D movies but you'll be able to walk around it.”

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