Attributes Quotes - Page 2

• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

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• Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.

  Lauren Conrad

  Jobs, Creativity, Passion

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• From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Religious, Men, Mind

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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

  Michael Servetus

  Mistake, Want, Argument

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• Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Philosophical, Creative, Different

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• If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

  Lawrence Welk

  Voice, Quality, Performers

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

  Ernst Mach

  Sound, Elements, Body

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Umpires, Soul, Liberty

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, Umpires

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Selfish, Artist, Umpires

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

  Richard Holloway

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  "God's Priorities for Your Life for Teens". 2006.

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• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

  Audrey Meadows

  Sorry, Guy, Lovely

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• A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, Alaska, Location

  "Palin on global warming". www.theguardian.com. October 06, 2008.

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• I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

  Jerome K. Jerome (2013). “Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome”, p.369, e-artnow

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• People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Umpires, People, Virtue

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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  One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love, Life, Kindness

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

  Gregory Bateson

  Thinking, Two, Quality

  "Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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• The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

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• Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

  Linda Chavez

  Female, Modesty, Natural

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  God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Beautiful, Essence, Limits

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.101, Ignatius Press

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• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Character, People, Liberty

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• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  Walter Gilbert

  Vigor, Variation, Responsible

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