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• Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drug, Holmes, Amiable

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• The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because those of us who do have a conscience can't really imagine what it would be like if we didn't. Most people think that deep down everybody has a conscience, and it turns out that's just not true.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, People, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Lying, Female, Different

  Source: www.elle.com

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• All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and female traits, but I think that they are more easily attributed to women.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Appreciation, Thinking, Female

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them in the heat, the very traits that allow them to survive in one environment will conspire against them in the other. We are polar bears in the Sahara with one important distinction: we are smarter than the average bear. Once we identify the nature of the problem, we can think our way out of it. But it begins by acknowledging you didn't fail because you couldn't succeed. Because you didn't even know what the scope of the problem was. It's not your fault.

  David Katz

  Thinking, Important, Succeed

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the U.S. is firing 2D animators and closing those studios, but I think it's possibly because the national traits of the U.S. prefer super-realism. Since Japan is a country that prefers plane vision, I don't think we will leave 2D and substitute hand-drawing with CGI entirely.

  Katsuhiro Otomo

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

  Gary Giddins

  Humility, Important, Critics

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties and problems are going to be faced by anyone at any age. When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it. Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?

  Aisling Loftus

  Growing Up, Teenage, Pregnancy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you start to meet with ordinary people you understand that a Russian person, really any person from Russia, a Tatar, a Mordvin, a Chechen, a Dagestani, they are very open people, even a little naive. But there's one defining trait that probably all peoples have, although it comes out especially strongly in us. That's a drive toward fairness. It's one of the dominating, I think, traits in the mentality of a person from Russia, a Russian person.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, People, Fairness

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• What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Mind, Next

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• Our Heavenly Father, who loves us completely and perfectly, permits us to have experiences that will allow us to develop the traits and attributes we need to become more and more Christlike. . . . As we understand this doctrine, we gain greater assurance of our Father's love. We will each face times of difficulty, and the question is not when we will face them but how we will face them.

  James B. Martino

  Father, Doctrine, Needs

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• Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Gossip, Examination, Incidents

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• I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

  Channing Tatum

  Stars, War, Wish

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• Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

  Isla Fisher

  Order, Tunes, Able

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

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• People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Air, People

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.216, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

  Warren Buffett

  Hero, Practice, Quality

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• When we want to infuse new ideas,
  to modify or better the habits and customs of a people,
  to breathe new vigor into its national traits,
  we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, People

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• Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, People, Design

  Immanuel Kant, Victor Lyle Dowdell, Hans H. Rudnick (1996). “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”, p.217, SIU Press

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

  Paul Tillich

  Honesty, Humble, Thoughtful

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Passion, Order, Ideas

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• At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

  Walter Kirn

  Persistence, Quality, Sound

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• No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

  Ann Patchett

  Want Something, People, Telling The Truth

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.382, A&C Black

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• You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.

  Melina Marchetta

  Horse, Journey, Agreement

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