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• Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Eye, Two, Desire

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• Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.

  Charles Correa

  Lying, Texture, Layers

  Charles Correa (2010). “A Place in the Shade: The New Landscape & Other Essays”, p.22, Penguin Books India

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• The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Lying, Two, Gnosis

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• Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Determination, Moving, Creative

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.22, BookBaby

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• The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

  Guy Debord

  Powerful, Class, Achievement

  Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.39, Bureau of Public Secrets

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• While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)

  Cornelius Castoriadis

  Self, Law, Historical

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• Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.

  J. I. Packer

  Doctrine, Study, Aim

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

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• Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be
  more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system

  J. C. Ryle

  Character, Men, Errors

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• Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

  Maria Tatar

  Hands, Magic, Enchantment

  Maria Tatar (2009). “Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Healing, Ignorance, Imperfection

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• The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

  Katharine Graham

  Sex, Women, Rise To Power

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

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• I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

  Derek Jeter

  New York, Unnecessary, Distraction

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• Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Sex, Moving, Men

  "Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1987.

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• It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

  Stacy Schiff

  Sex, Brain, Her Beauty

  Stacy Schiff (2010). “Cleopatra: A Life”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.

  Julie Foudy

  Motivational, Athlete, Levels

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• The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

  Horace Mann

  Fall, Yield, Law

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.184

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• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Past, Years, Political

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• A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Integrity, Compliments You, Quality

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• Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Animal, Dumb, Slavery

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

  Eliphas Levi

  Names, Evil, Intellectual

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• If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, Attitude, Essence

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Girl, Confirmation, Romantic Relationship

  "I enjoy the freedom of being single - but should I be looking for a partner?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2013.

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• Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

  Andrew Soltis

  Player, Genius, Chess

  "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess". Book by Harry Golombek, 1977.

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• The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Pride, Men, Self

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