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• Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

  Ron Fournier

  Humility, Reform, Care

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• A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, People, Presidential

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• I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Self, Humans

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• I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Character, Thinking, Tv Shows

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tyrants, People, Resistance

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

  Simon Cowell

  Hard Work, People, Work Ethic

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• Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

  Pierre Corneille

  World, Clemency, Monarchs

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• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  Gail Collins

  President, Reason Why, Judgment

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• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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• When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Greatness, Erosion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.

  Richelle Mead

  Pride, Thinking, Fire

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait

  Natasha Friend

  Mean, Small Changes, Personality

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• At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.

  Jon Ronson

  Mean, Anxiety, Feelings

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• Have you heard that modesty is an attractive traits? Only to ugly people

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Ugly, Modesty

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• ...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

  James Hillman

  Dark, Mirrors, Shadow

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• The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heart, Men, Weakness

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• Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays, Each thing save one thing: mid this strife diurnal, Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not; Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers, Find altered by-and-bye, When, with possession, time anon discovers, Trapped dreams must die, - For he that visions God, of mankind gathers, One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father's love for his son.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Dream, Father

  "The Certain Hour (To Robert Gamble Cabell II: In Dedication of The Certain Hour)". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1916.

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• It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

  Gore Vidal

  Teacher, Simple, Sea

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• It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Beautiful, Character

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• No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Tolerance, Everyday, Humans

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• Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Thinking, Psychics, Stronger

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• Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Meaningful, Differences, Personality

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• Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

  Graydon Carter

  Ignorance, Office, Personality

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