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• Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Race, Effort, Encounters

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.23, John Wiley & Sons

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• An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, Leader, Challenges

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• Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

  Margaret Sanger

  Population, Inheritance, May

  Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

  Rose Byrne

  Healthy, Sense Of Humor, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

  Dick Morris

  Political, Television, Politics

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

  Paul Newman

  Hurt, Hands, People

  "Paul Newman's Road To Glory". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.filmmonthly.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

  Walt Kelly

  Self, Hands, People

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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• Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

  David Greenberg

  Ideas, Preference, Rooted

  David Greenberg (2006). “Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

  Bhagat Singh

  Independent, Thinking, Two

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Loneliness, Desire, And Love

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

  Larry Osborne

  Leader, Risk, Littles

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• Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

  Mark Millar

  Skills, Decision, Decision Making

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• Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Excellence, Behavior

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• Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

  Reshma Saujani

  Confidence, Stay Strong, Believe

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

  John Dewey

  Community, Improvement, Problem

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

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• I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

  Albert Einstein

  Solitude, Age, Increase

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• A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

  John Dewey

  Views, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.344, Courier Corporation

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• Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways.

  Julie Bindel

  Real, Play, Squares

  "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• It's relatively easy to create an ambiguous character. Any conglomeration of likable and unlikeable traits, chosen at random, will result in an ambiguous character. Getting an audience to deeply identify with a character, on the other hand, is one of the hardest things in the world to do.

  Matt Bird

  Character, Hands, World

  "Losing My Religion, Part 2: Misconceptions About Character". www.secretsofstory.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many individuals whom we would today diagnose as autistic - some severely so - contributed profoundly to our art, our math, our science, and our literature.

  Morton Ann Gernsbacher

  Art, Math, People

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• Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they can't make the connection between entertainment and thought, they want immediate kicks. People will not be human until they get pleasure from thought. Only a thinking person can be a full person.

  Vera Chytilova

  Thinking, People, Connections

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• Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Character, Expansion, Way

  Jonathan Rosenbaum (2004). “Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons”, p.155, JHU Press

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• There's a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldn't do that. Blinking when you're shooting a gun, you know. Things that you take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always interesting.

  Kristanna Loken

  Running, Eye, Gun

  "Kristanna Loken for 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2003.

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• My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Fun, Stubborn, Impatient

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2012.

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• It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

  Shirley Jones

  Wake Up, Annoying, Habit

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