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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.»
«Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.»
Author: Katharine Graham
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
attribute, attributing, considered, in fact, masculine
«The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.»
«No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.»
«There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
attribute, attributing, evils, free will, of his own, tendency
«Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it becomes indescribable, indefinable.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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All of Us, aspire, attained, attribute, exclusive, indefinable, indescribable, untranslatable
«Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Excellence,
Perfection
| Keywords:
attribute, distinguished, imaginary, known as, The Critic
«Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
arbitrarily, attribute, complexes, conjunction, conjunctions, impressions, interpreted, occurring, sense impression
«People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.»
«Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
attribute, facility, resistant, softer, T
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