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• That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that he’s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.

  Walter Mosley

  Memories, Thinking, Doors

  "Mosley's 'Last Days' Restores Memory, But At A Cost". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 6, 2010.

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• One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.

  Gail Carriger

  Sweet, Hair, Black

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• The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Struggle, Forgiving, World

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• There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

  Jim Butcher

  Regard

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• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Heart, Humble

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• Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teeth, Sunny, Horrible

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Evil, Heaven

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.300, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

  Jane Austen

  Rooms, Speak, Whole

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.81

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• One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Men, Light

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Blessed, Offering, Iron

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.261, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

  Henry Wood

  Inspirational, Happiness, Heart

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• I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Goodness

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.237

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• There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

  William Bennett

  Motivational, Jobs, Attitude

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• Can I brush your hair?” she asked as she led the way, her disposition doing a 180 on a dime. Kids. Can’t live with ’em. Can’t eat ’em for lunch.

  Darynda Jones

  Kids, Lunch, Hair

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.138, Macmillan

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• The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

  Mark Twain

  Laughing, Together, Stories

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”, Library of America

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• Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

  A. A. Milne

  Winter, Ideas, Piglet

  A A Milne (1998). “Cn Pooh 12-Copy Slipcase #06: Ams - Kanga & Baby Roo Comes to the Forest”, Dutton Books

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• One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

  L. Frank Baum

  Lovely, Looks, Ugly

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 2 of 2. Little Wizard Stories of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow Of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Lost Princess Of Oz,”, p.124, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

  Judith Butler

  Love Is, Feelings, Vision

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• I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sad, Thinking, Lucky

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Years, People

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• Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

  Jane Austen

  Clever, Home, Blessing

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.2, MobileReference

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• I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

  Christopher Paolini

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  "Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 2)". Book by Christopher Paolini, August 23, 2005.

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• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Passion, Men

  Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.

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• If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  Radhanath Swami

  Hate, Compassion, Universal Love

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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