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My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

~Chris Hayes

Topics: Authority Being Disposition Human Human Being Kind Person Tend Trust

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So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.

~Chris Liddell

Topics: Away Disposition Drinks End Essentially Genetic Miserable Need Party People Person Sort Takes Who You

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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

~Claude Adrien Helvetius

Topics: Desire Disposition Esteem General Glory Happy Honor Honors Humanity Inspire Justice Love Men Mention Number Only Riches Same Small Strong Them Virtue Which Whom

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I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

~Daniel Gilbert

Topics: About Almost Am Blessed Continue Disappoint Disposition Good Good Things Happening Laugh Love Me Optimistic Rest Scary Sorry Species Sunny Things Think Wildly Will You I Think I Am I Love

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Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Activity Anyway Call Characters Criminal Disposition Just Most Proletariat Them Towards

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I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Boundaries Break Certain Certainly Disposition Itself Lends Lines Me Much My Own One Or Two Outside Own People Playing Some Some People Temperament Test Think Two I Think

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There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Best Desire Destroy Disposition Escape Faculties Indulgence Labor Minds Most Nature Our Overcome Paralyze Powers Secret Unless Useful Which Will

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Ability Disposition Improve Preserve Standard Statesman Taken Together Would

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Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Aid Always Been Children Disappointed Discouraged Disposition Expect Expectations Expecting Favor Helpless Leaning Lives Met Others Same Seen Them Through Waited Whole Will Yield

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I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

~Esther Dyson

Topics: Actually Believe Control Copyright Creator Disposition Financial Her His Important Integrity Issue Kind Less Moral Proper Right Stuff Than Think Work Works I Think

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