#attribute

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #biological #birth #cannot #eighteen

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#attribute #best #knowing #questions #stupid

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#children #fragile #healthy #healthy people #help

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#woman

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#children #condition #dead #formerly #happiness

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#beauty

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#change #character #jealousy #nature #transformation

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#dreams #love #reality #sleep #dreams

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. [Misattributed] ↗