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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

— Albert Schweitzer

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

— Leo Strauss

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