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• The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Character, Parent

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.105, Macmillan

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• One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Use, Temperance, Know How

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Income, Matter, Artistic Temperament

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Personality

  Hans Hofmann (1980). “Hans Hofmann, 1880-1966: A Special Exhibition of Major Paintings to Mark the Centennial of the Artist's Birth : December 13-January 13, 1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York”

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• 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.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

  Susan Cain

  Men, World, Extroverts

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Artist, Expression

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

  May Sarton

  Baby, Thinking, Genius

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

  Sol Hurok

  Artist, Want, Way

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

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• Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

  Mason Cooley

  Artist, Literature, Artistic

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• It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

  Tilda Swinton

  Trailers, Performers, Walking

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• I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

  Glenn Close

  Thinking, Play, Trying

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• When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Littles, Suits, Terrible

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• Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

  Gloria Swanson

  Real, Artist, Directors

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• In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

  Artur Rodzinski

  Orchestra, Type, Nationality

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• Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Science, Artist

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

  Dominic Chianese

  Uncles, Father, Anger

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• Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

  Bennie Thompson

  Wisdom, Strong, Successful

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• The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

  Montserrat Caballe

  Giving, Impossible, Moments

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• Women speak in the superlative.

  Emile Souvestre

  Speak, Superlatives

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• Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acid, Temper, Sweetness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

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• When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

  Martin Luther

  Anger, Writing, Temptation

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• It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

  Robert Nozick

  Philosophy, Ideas, Interesting

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Color, Green

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.950, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

  Bill Brandt

  Photographer, Environment, Individual

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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