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capability

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The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.

Capacity of being used or improved.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't. Josh McDowell

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability. Abby Sunderland

There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. Colin Powell

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. Carl Sagan

Money has the capability of making people laugh; but when they laugh, the foolish ones sometimes forget to close their mouths. Nigerian Proverb

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