#temper

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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.


William James


#devout #esteem #facts #itself #neutralized

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.


William James


#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.


Arthur Keith


#drunkard #man #one thing #quite #temperate

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.


Thomas Keneally


#being #believe #came #did #eccentric

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.


Anthony Kennedy


#commitment #consensus #constant #general #i

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.


John F. Kennedy


#been #bitter #born #century #disciplined

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#armed #armed forces #benefits #doubt #forces

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#deny #efficiency #few #increasing #nation

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#essentially #fortunately #habits #people #temperate

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


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