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The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.

~Andrew Breitbart

Topics: Acceptable Against America Appear Black Choose Continue Disposition Given Guilty History Ignored Institutional Lines Mainstream Mainstream Media Make Media Nation Our Racism Story While White Whites

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The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

~Aristotle

Topics: Acute Animals Best Disposition Eyes Large Middle Moderate Most Others Persons Position Projecting Sign Size Small Some Those Vision Which

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

~Aristotle

Topics: Benevolent Better Business Clearly Common Create Disposition Legislator Men Private Property Should Special Use

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

~Aristotle

Topics: Actions Anxious Certain Character Citizens Disposition Fellow Fellow Citizens His Moral Moral Character Most Namely Performance Produce Statesman Virtue Virtuous

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition Justice Mind Peace State Virtue War

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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition Justice Mere Mind Peace Springs State Virtue War

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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

~Carl Jung

Topics: Basis Bears Broad Collective Conscious Disposition Get Individual Inherited Nearest Our Personal Psyche Psychic Relation Resting Same Shall Society Think Truth Unconscious Universal Which

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For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing 'Goodnight Moon' before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition - but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Babies Became Bedtime Before Book Disposition First Good Goodnight He Hearing Help His Insisted Life Like Moon Most Part Reading Ritual Seemed Son Specifically Three Whole Years

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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Cannot Disposition Increase Only Ounce Own Power Single Strength Will

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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

~Chanakya

Topics: Disposition Fame Good Man Needed Other Value Virtue

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