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As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

Albert J. Nock

Drs, Crime, States

"Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock (p. 50), 1935.

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To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.

J. H. Oldham

Powerful, Responsibility, Cutting

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An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful
and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the
other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear upset our peace of mind, make
us agitated and affect our body adversely. Even our body needs peace
of mind and is not suited to agitation. This shows that an
appreciation for peace of mind is in our blood.

Dalai Lama

Jealousy, Appreciation, Buddhist

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In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices that shape these actions. Because the dispositions formed by previous choices can be modified in turn by present behaviour, this identity as choice-maker is fluid, its experience alterable. While it is affected by the past, it can also break free of the past.

Joanna Macy

Karma, Buddhist, Past

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Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

John Eudes

Faith, Christian, Jesus

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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

William Godwin

Determination, Two, Decision

William Godwin (2015). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness”, p.78, Penguin UK

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Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.

Alexander Hamilton

Truth, Character, Hypocrite

Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.419

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I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Practice, People

"What works: Common sense solutions for a stronger America" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2014.

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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

William Shakespeare

Life, Cheerful, Heaviness

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.275, Cengage Learning EMEA

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There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

David O. McKay

Happiness, Attitude, Soul

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It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.

Lucretius

Spring, Order, Infinite Time

Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.41, Psychology Press

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It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each other, since they were ruled by very different laws, governed by opposite principles, since they had neither the same morals, nor the same customs, since they were animated by unlike dispositions which did not permit them to judge of anything in the same way, it must be therefore that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel.

Bernard Lazare

Country, Race, Israel

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Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Laurens van der Post

Love, Fighting, Men

"Feather Fall: An Anthology".

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A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

Alphonsus Liguori

Grace, Baptism, May

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...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to the heart; but never in my presence did he evince a revengeful disposition.

Ulysses S. Grant

War, Heart, Enemy

Ulysses S. Grant (2006). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.405, Cosimo, Inc.

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The best part of health is fine disposition

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health, Fine

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

Sir Fulke Greville

Gratitude, Men, Perfection

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Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

Diogenes

Gratitude, Grateful, Iron

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A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gratitude, Men, Feelings

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For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

John Tillotson

Spiritual, Blessing, Preparation

John Tillotson (1685). “A Discourse Against Transubstantiation”, p.30

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One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

Barbara Tuchman

Alternatives, Elements, Eras

Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.27, Random House

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Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

Thomas Jefferson

Men, Democracy, Way

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.281, Cosimo, Inc.

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In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

Justice, Remembrance, Speech

Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Carl Jung

Childhood, Individual, Courses

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.82, Psychology Press

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The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.

Benjamin Tucker

Ideas, World, Emergencies

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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