Attributes Quotes

• I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

  Richard Chamberlain

  Unique, Two, Carbon Footprint

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Errors, Order

  "Metaphysics". Book by Aristotle. Book XIII, 1078a.33,

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• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Men, Years

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

  Charles Hodge

  Exercise, Men, Doe

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.52

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• When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

  Allan Sloan

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Anger, School, Differences

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• The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Brave New World, America

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• Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

  Michel Foucault

  Strength, Power, Names

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.93, Vintage

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Umpires, Evil

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Work, Thinking, Umpires

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• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Love, Valentines Day, Confused

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers

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• Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Umpires, Towers, May

  Dirk Bogarde (2014). “A Postillion Struck by Lightning”, p.171, A&C Black

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• My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions

  Gina Gershon

  Stupid, Knowing, Answers

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

  Scott Hamilton

  Rationality, Industry

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• In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

  George J. Mitchell

  Support, Patriotism, Criticism

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• No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

  Matthew Henry

  Umpires, Holiness, Sinner

  Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry (1847). “Psalm LXIV-Malachi”

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• The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Mistake, Errors, Umpires

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

  Kiana Tom

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Successful

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• To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Umpires, Literature

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.67

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• After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

  James Prescott Joule

  Next, Obedience, Goodness

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• We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

  John Searle

  Umpires, Car, Understanding

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.

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• A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Success, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.143

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• The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

  William Ames

  Attributes Of God

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