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"If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves."
"There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality."
"It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe."
"A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation."
"If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!"
"We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians."
"Every band is different just because of the different combinations of people really are super unique to every band. The way you work together and the personalities that are being brought to the table. Our band is definitely the best combination of personalities I've worked with so far."
"The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness."
"If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too."
"William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke."
"Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers."
"Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door."
"I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life."
"I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles."
"I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work."
"I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?"
"Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not."
"It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine."
"For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded."
"A party is perpetually corrupted by personality."
