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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Emma Goldman

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

Good humor isn't a trait of character; it is an art which requires practice.

David Seabury

The frequency of the gene increases because people who carry these genes are more fit and they have more kids. We think each gene conveys some sort of fitness advantage in brain biology. It could be an improved cognitive function or a personality trait. We're not sure. But we know whatever consequence they render is highly favored by selection.

Bruce T. Lahn

If you want to select a bull in the top 10 or 25 percent in the breed for a specific trait, those percentile tables will give you a benchmark number to compare bulls to in order to find out if a bull has the desirable genetics for a specific trait.

Daryl Strohbehn

By combining the Optimum GAT trait with our industry leading soybean products, farmers will enjoy even more significant yield advantages, along with improved weed control options.

Dean Oestreich

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Jon Anderson

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

Janet Malcolm

Students aren't knowledgeable, and are probably lazy and procrastinate, so they cheat. These are crimes based on a lack of knowledge. It's a terrible character trait to develop.

Fran Cohen

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

John Toshack

An intriguing aspect of this study is that the mechanism for ensuring cross-fertilization is very old, often lost, and never regained. That it is still common despite frequent and irreversible loss implies that this trait confers an advantage to species that possess it, perhaps in terms of reduced rates of extinction.

Joshua Kohn

I'm definitely a person who likes to control my own destiny. That's hard to do in this business because there are many creative people with great ideas and years of experience giving you advice, but what is right for one artist isn't always best for another. Knowing what's best for you and being willing to stand up and assert that is really a strong trait in this business.

Martina Mcbride

People don't understand it's a special trait to want the ball in that situation, and then to make the shot.

George Karl

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Their hubris was amazing. But are supposedly nice people really all that different now? The ability to misuse another person and then find reasons to excuse it is a universal human trait.

Scott Nolte

We do this all the time. We play well against good teams and not so good against average teams. We don't always bring our A game. Just good enough to win. Which is a good trait, I guess, playing good enough to win.

Don Bartlett

It's difficult (to be productive) when you don't get much work in practice, but it's a learned trait that I picked up last year, ... I feel like I'm definitely a better quarterback than I was last year. I'll just keep trying to do the best I can in these next two preseason games and hopefully impress the Eagles or some other team.

Andy Hall

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Ivan Illich

We believe . . . humor may have been a trait that evolved to allow individuals of the opposite sex to evaluate their mate quality.

Sigal Balshine

A long generation time is an important trait that separates humans from their evolutionary relatives. In our study, we found that the chimpanzee's generation time is a lot closer to that of humans than it is to other apes.

Navin Elango

The damage to his internal organs wasn't caused from this alleged sickle cell trait. He (the medical examiner) doesn't want to address the issue of internal bleeding. What caused this internal bleeding?

Benjamin Crump

He (Kiir) has a reputation for being collegial in the way he does business ... we all know that wasn't always Dr John's trait.

Roger Winter

Another part of that mindfulness concept is the ability to relate to all types of people and see what they can contribute. Certainly, many important leadership skills can be developed, but I feel that trait of mindfulness is an innate capability that someone either has or doesn't have.

Paul Gleason

He was friendly, courteous and unassuming. His course etiquette was wonderful, and I enjoyed playing with him often over the next two years before he went off to UK. He was also funny as hell, a trait I assume he also got from his dad, Maurice.

Patrick Mcclure

In all fairness, I feel compelled to warn men that women, even on good days, are compulsively manipulative. We constantly take advantage of the fact that men are either unaware of this particular trait or are wonderfully forgetful.

Owen J. Mcclain

There is a common trait in teams at this point in the season that they seem to sit back and wait for somebody to win the game for them. And we had too many of our players waiting for someone to win the game.

Paul Cullen

In a nation of immigrants, the English language is the one common trait we can rally behind.

Mauro E. Mujica

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

I like to be unabashed, which is an Indian trait, both emotionally and visually. It's important to have a circus to play with.

Mira Nair

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.

Josh Mcdowell

Pornographic material seems to hold a fascination for the human species. It's a human trait. It doesn't matter if you live in a big city or a rural area - the interest in this kind of speech is the same.

Gary Edinger

For decades now, the scientific and medical community have said that sexual orientation is an immutable trait, what some of us might call a gift from God.

Harry Knox

When he had to be good, he was good. He got better as the game went on. He's a great competitor - that's his No. 1 trait.

Calvin Baisley

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''.

Richard M. Devos

Buying an SUV involves a tradeoff. While these vehicles may do well in certain types of crashes, they also are much more likely to roll over. People should be aware of that trait when they are choosing a family vehicle.

Ricardo Martinez

He was a guy you could count on. That's a pretty good trait in politics, too.

Scotty Bowman

There are some people who are opposed to the term and rather look at the person's trait as being a highly sensitive person. Aron says that highly sensitive people are really quite imaginative, bright and they are over aroused by certain environments. So, what they do is really choose to be in less aroused, active environments. What they've learned is how to protect themselves.

Wanda Bethea

The medical examiner said he died from internal bleeding. One thing we do know is that damage to his internal organs wasn't caused from this alleged sickle-cell trait.

Benjamin Crump

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

Douglas Hyde

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Giacomo Leopardi

By 2007, we expect the number of triple-stacked acres in our national corn brands will surpass the number of single-trait acres.

Carl Casale

Todd is great because he still goes into every curve and analyzes every inch. It's a trait not many drivers have. He's very bright, and very impressive to talk to.

Steve Holcomb

We are somewhat consoled by the fact that Marla died doing what she really wanted to do: help people less fortunate than herself. Many of us believe that character trait to be the most beautiful quality a human being can possess. And Marla had an abundance of it.

Medea Benjamin

Some new products are focusing on battling tiredness, a key trait that can actually accelerate the skin aging process. Products such as L'Oreal Europe's Infallible foundation are claiming to resist against the signs of tiredness, which can be felt at any age. It presents more preventive versus reactive options for consumers.

Lynn Dornblaser

We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being a follower of Islam.

Ehsan Ahmed