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• Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Roots, Desire, Four

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• You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

  Naomi Klein

  Peace, Reality, Ideas

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• The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

  Herbert Spencer

  Motivational, Men, Self

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.206

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• It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

  Charles Frazier

  Too Much, Study, Complicated

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.412, Random House

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• While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

  Lisa Lutz

  Mother, Father, Real

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Men, Individual, Superficial

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• The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Knowing, Long Ago

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Giving, People, Body

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.95, 谷月社

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• Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

  Immanuel Kant

  Sex, Views, Two

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• No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Giving, Car

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

  Mira Grant

  Sleep, Silence, Exotic

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• Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

  David Belasco

  Song, Drama, Light

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• Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

  Robert Kennedy

  Heart, School, Law

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  Ursula Burns

  Powerful, Practice, Careers

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• Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at least partly on the basis of qualities we find attractive. But we do not choose our children. Their qualities are unpredictable, and even the most conscientious parents cannot be held wholly responsible for the kind of child they have. That is why parenthood, more than other human relationships, teaches what the theologian William F. May calls an “openness to the unbidden.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Love Is, Parent

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• Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. . . . We believe that charity must begin at home. Can we hope to be charitable to the stranger if love does not abound in the family? A sure step in the direction of improvement and progress in our own lives comes when we share with mother or father in their dependence as they shared with us in their productive years.... We cannot as children ignore our obligations to our parents by passing responsibility for their care to others. . . .

  Henry D. Moyle

  Life, Christian, Mother

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• When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

  Bill Buxton

  Tools, Helping, Description

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• I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Children, Thinking, People

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• He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.

  Thomas Gore

  Loyalty, Dog

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• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
  whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Humility, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind.

  Wayne Dyer

  Creativity, Essence, Creative

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.60, Hay House, Inc

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• Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Love Is, Men

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• It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Son, Men

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

  Philip K. Howard

  Father, Government, Coercion

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• At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

  David Sarnoff

  Religious, Science, Men

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