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#temperament

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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.


Emile Durkheim


#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.


James Ellroy


#am #authority #conservative #criminal #disapprove

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.


E. M. Forster


#fate #fools #perhaps #sign #temperament

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.


Robert Nozick


#angle #another #attack #bold #case

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.


Tom Stoppard


#conservatism #conservative #i #kind #person

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.


Paul Cezanne


#intelligible #means #needed #painter #public

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.


Gene Tunney


#been #blow #boxing #dodging #fooling

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.


Jennifer Love Hewitt


#cat #cats #certain #does #dog

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.


John Barth


#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.


Philip Levine


#novelist #temperament






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