#temper

A theory must be tempered with reality. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ↗

— George Orwell

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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety." ↗

— Francis Quarles

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