#disposition

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. ↗

— Leon Kass

#just #life #machinery #technical

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. ↗

— William John Wills

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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

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We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all. ↗

— Mike Patton

#complacency #contentment #disposition #happiness #attitude

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

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It is not the position, but the disposition. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#position