Michele Pasin / Quotes

Dennis the menace is not a villain

Dennis is an uncontrollable schoolboy who takes pride in causing chaos and mayhem to those around him due to his intolerance for rules and order. Such traits have caused some artists to consider him to be quite the villain. In such strips, Dennis would often prove himself to be quite selfish and greedy, often disregarding his friends in favour for treasures.[4][5] Despite this, he would often get his comeuppance in the end. His misbehaviour stems from what The Beano explains as an attempt to add excitement to an otherwise dull day. Often equipped with a red and black jersey and an array of menacing weaponry (such as a catapult), Dennis is considered to be quite the loner, seeking no solace in anyone's company aside from his faithful pet dog Gnasher.

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#pride #traits #friends

All winners need losers, all saints need sinners

Saints have always declared themselves as abject sinners—through recognition that their aspiration to be saintly is motivated by the worst of all sins…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #pride #ego #game #people #unselfishness

Un bisogno disperato di ammirazione

Il suo bisogno di sostegno ammirazione affetto lealtà è diventato improvvisamente disperato: deve riceverne subito, non può rimandare neanche di qualche…

Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo) #ego #pride #relationship

A class is a category of shared traits

A class is a category of items that share one or more common traits serving as criteria to identify the items belonging to the class.

Cidoc-crm Version 4.2.4 - Reference Document #traits #class #categories #items #criteria

A hierarchy of character traits

For the sake of simplicity, we can crudely schematise any given individual’s character into a hierarchy of types. The weakest kind of character traits are…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #character #traits #hierarchy

A man does not consist of memory alone

If there is a continuity of key character traits, there will be some, albeit a radically diminished, continuity of the self too. ‘A man does not consist of…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #memory #traits #feelings

Character varies with situation

The central truth is not that character is a myth, but that it varies more according to situation than we tend to assume. This means that, even if we take the…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #character #situation #traits