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«Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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causes, conditions, consequently, explained, expresses, involved, phenomenon, social, special, special act, stamp, stamping, stamp out, suicide, temperament, temperaments, The Social, victim
«There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.»
Author: Henry Van Dyke
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
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Charm
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charm, cheerful, temperament, temperaments
«If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life- it's an exhalation of life and I think I you probably need a little touch of madness.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
actor, exhalation, exhalations, extra, heights, it An, larger-than-life, larger, madness, temperament, temperaments, voltage
«Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Age,
Health,
Temperament
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depend, depend upon, temperament, temperaments
«I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understandingsharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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angry, depart, inspired, mundane, pray, preach, quickened, quickening, quickens, temperament, temperaments, temptations, The Quickening, vexations
«Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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brand, Branded, brands, by-product, demanded, for anything, glandular, had better, pluck, temperament, temperaments, treasures, unhappiness, worrying
«The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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afflicting, afflicts, amateurs, artistic, like an amateur, temperament, temperaments
«Music inflames temperament.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
inflame, inflamed, inflames, temperament, temperaments
«No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, and others, apply, convictions, differently, expresses, give way, mature, nevertheless, occasions, temperaments, Trials, true to, withstand
«Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought / by force of circumstances, not argument / to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
devised, fiercely, reconcile, second hand, temperaments
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