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«Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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causes, conditions, consequently, explained, expresses, involved, phenomenon, social, special, special act, stamp, stamping, stamp out, suicide, temperament, temperaments, The Social, victim
«Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.»
«If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life- it's an exhalation of life and I think I you probably need a little touch of madness.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
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actor, exhalation, exhalations, extra, heights, it An, larger-than-life, larger, madness, temperament, temperaments, voltage
«Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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Age,
Health,
Temperament
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«It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.»
«Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.»
«I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understandingsharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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angry, depart, inspired, mundane, pray, preach, quickened, quickening, quickens, temperament, temperaments, temptations, The Quickening, vexations
«Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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brand, Branded, brands, by-product, demanded, for anything, glandular, had better, pluck, temperament, temperaments, treasures, unhappiness, worrying
«A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
temperament, unique, work of art
«He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.»
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