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Gage: What people are trying to get at when they use the word temperament is something along the lines of instinct--how someone approaches a situation and particularly, I think, how someone approaches a crisis...
...Meeting Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill said, was like opening your first bottle of champagne. "Knowing him was like drinking it." Temperament is a special subcommittee of character: it is less intellect than instinct, more about music than lyrics - the quality voters sense when they watch a candidate improvise or when he thinks no one is looking. It's why newspapers run profiles quoting kindergarten teachers; temperament is formed early. "You can call it balance. You can call it a sense of proportion. You can call it maturity, good judgment," says historian David McCullough. "One of the clearest lessons of history...
...caged chickens–searing off their beaks to stop the stressed birds from pecking each other to death. Both the California Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals endorsed Prop Two, citing the suffering caged animals endure when denied their basic instinct to move...
...that ignores the thousands of lives he made better in small ways and large through his campaigning for urban renewal and his support of grass-roots community initiatives. And it misses the vital essence of the man - an ability to combine a keen eye and sharp instinct for the big issues of our time with an eye-twinkling liveliness that made him a tremendous joy to be around. I remember a day a few years ago at his home in Stonington, Conn., when, racing his Boston Whaler to a distant beach at a terrifying clip, he had my young daughters...
...days of relentless media pressure and blew the doubts away, that she had the jauntiness of one who knew her own gifts: knew she could connect to a crowd and raise the roof and stomp her opponent with her sensible high heels. And of course, benefit from her critics' instinct to underestimate...