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  2. Scientific temper - Wikipedia

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    While religion tends to close the mind and produce "intolerance, credulity and superstition, emotionalism and irrationalism", and "a temper of a dependent, unfree person", a scientific temper "is the temper of a free man." He also indicated that the scientific temper goes beyond objectivity and fosters creativity and progress.

  3. Honesty-humility factor of the HEXACO model of personality

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    The honesty-humility factor is one of the six basic personality traits of the HEXACO model of personality. Honesty-humility is a basic personality trait representing the tendency to be fair and genuine when dealing with others, in the sense of cooperating with others, even when someone might utilize them without suffering retaliation. [1]

  4. Temperance (virtue) - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The modern meaning of temperance has evolved since its first usage. In Latin, tempero means restraint (from force or anger), but also more broadly the proper balancing or mixing (particularly, of temperature, or compounds). Hence the phrase "to temper a sword", meaning the heating and cooling process of forging a metal blade.

  5. Equanimity - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] When in London, He was asked about His time in prison and said: "Freedom is not a matter of place. It is a condition. It is a condition. I was thankful for the prison, and the lack of liberty was very pleasing to me, for those days were passed in the path of service, under the utmost difficulties and trials, bearing fruits and ...

  6. Temperament - Wikipedia

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    Even though temperament and psychiatric disorders can be presented as, correspondingly, weak and strong imbalances within the same regulatory systems, it is incorrect to say that temperament is a weak degree of these disorders.

  7. The Free Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The site comprises a selection of articles from open-access journals that can in many cases also be found on a journal's own website. It is a sister site to The Free Dictionary and usage examples in the form of "references in classic literature" taken from the site's collection are used on The Free Dictionary 's definition pages.

  8. Shrew (stock character) - Wikipedia

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    A common central theme of such literature and folktales is the often forceful "taming" of shrewish wives by their husbands. [2] Arising in folklore, in which community story-telling can have functions of moral censorship or suasion, it has served to affirm traditional values and moral authority regarding polarised gender roles, and to address social unease about female behavior in marriage.

  9. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    More recently, other first names have also been used in specific context, such as Leon Mustermann (sample children's passport), [24] Cleopâtre Mustermann (sample travel document for foreigners), [25] or Manu Musterperson (Manu Sample Person, as a gender-neutral form). [26] de:Otto Normalverbraucher for economics related purposes