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disposition
«Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
benevolence, disposition, state of mind
«Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.»
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Inventor, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
disposition, indignation, joined, rabble
«The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.»
Author: Jeannette Rankin
(Politician)
| Keywords:
appointed, appointing, appoints, behavior, disposition, independent, or else, required, rescue, rescues, rescuing, role, self respect, thereby, The Independent, thousand times, wreckage
«Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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barely, by no means, devised, disposition, distinctly, firmament, Great Depression, habitable, high sea, high temperature, high water, maximum, minimum, not long, nurturing, optimum, perpetuation, planet Earth, temperatures, the Great Depression, unfortunate, unhappiest, vitality
«Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
binds, disposition, temperance, The Passions
«They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
disposition, equal to, exalted, excessively, hopeful, humbled, moreover, notions, overdo, overdoes, overdoing, overdone, regulated, vehemently
«Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
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disposition
«There is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accordance, Book One, bring out, disposition, one of them, remain, sealed, sealing, seals, side
«Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alert, asserting, disposition, fiery, invasion, liable, Pride and, prompt, prompter, resolute