Attributes Quotes - Page 2

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

James Prescott Joule

Next, Obedience, Goodness

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Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.

Lauren Conrad

Jobs, Creativity, Passion

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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Umpires, People, Virtue

The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Marcus Aurelius

Umpires, Majority, Too Much

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Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

Arthur Peacocke

Philosophical, Creative, Different

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A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

Sarah Palin

Men, Alaska, Location

"Palin on global warming". www.theguardian.com. October 06, 2008.

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

Ayn Rand

Religious, Men, Mind

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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

Gregory Bateson

Thinking, Two, Quality

"Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Ibrahim Babangida

Character, People, Liberty

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Baruch Spinoza

Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Selfish, Artist, Umpires

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

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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beautiful, Essence, Limits

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.101, Ignatius Press

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Love, Life, Kindness

Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

Lawrence Welk

Voice, Quality, Performers

Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

Michael Servetus

Mistake, Want, Argument

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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.

William James

Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Richard Holloway

Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

"God's Priorities for Your Life for Teens". 2006.

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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Ralph Adams Cram

Umpires, Soul, Liberty

RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Jerome K. Jerome

Weed, Nature, Marijuana

Jerome K. Jerome (2013). “Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome”, p.369, e-artnow

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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

George Kennedy

War, Loss, Umpires

"Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Children, Evil

Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

Linda Chavez

Female, Modesty, Natural

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Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Ernst Mach

Sound, Elements, Body

Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

John Calvin

Race, Punishment, Justice

"Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

Audrey Meadows

Sorry, Guy, Lovely

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