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• The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.

  J. B. Jackson

  Essence, Numbers, Landscape

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• There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

  Billy Bragg

  Honesty, Writing, Personality

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• There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.

  James A.C. Brown

  Fear, Mean, People

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• We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Work Ethic, Matching, Ethics

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• And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven't been born yet. They pick out what kinds of traits they want the new people to have - they give them all the raw material of their souls, like their talents and their brains and their potential. Of course it's up to the new ones, once they're born, what they'll use and what they won't but that's what everyone who dies is doing, I think.

  Dara Horn

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game.

  Bill Tierney

  Believe, Opportunity, Player

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• Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Teacher, Foundation, Essentials

  Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

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• Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

  Richard G. Scott

  Selfish, Character, Thinking

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• Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

  Lionel Messi

  Player, Years, Games

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• Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.

  Robert Greene

  Character, Unique, Thinking

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• I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.

  Larry Wall

  Trying, Roles, Stubborn

  Usenet article <20031215021442.GA4012@wall.org>, groups.google.com. December 15, 2003.

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• Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits.

  Andy Greenwald

  Emo, Latin, Book

  Andy Greenwald (2003). “Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Should, Treats

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.181, NavPress

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• Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have

  Dennis Prager

  Humility, Important, Fantastic

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• Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

  Norm Dicks

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  Taylor Kinney

  Jobs, Actors, Honest

  "Taylor Kinney Exclusive Interview THE VAMPIRE DIARIES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.

  Dessa Darling

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Opportunity, Sound, Analysis

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Leadership, Mistake, Character

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• It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Philosophy, Book, Character

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Appreciate, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

  Marcel Proust

  Age, Certain, Obvious

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• I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

  Terry Gross

  Thinking, Voice, Personality

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Stubborness we deprecate,
  Firmness we condone,
  The former is our neighbors trait,
  The latter is our own.

  John Wooden

  Neighbor, Stubbornness, Firmness

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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