mentality

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Except once of clearly finding himself addicted and being forced to go through detoxification with some charitable monks (that had been the cocaine period the result of frequent raids of the cash box and an episode of thievery in Bangkok), he believed that his mentality was a strong one.

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  1. noun Cast or turn of mind: a vindictive mentality.
  2. noun The sum of a person's intellectual capabilities or endowment.

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  • I kinda cater to the Katharine Hepburn mentality, which is "be as wonderful as you possibly can be onscreen, and as edgy and cutthroat as you can be off-screen." —  I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
  • Bush and Bushism - AKA regressivism - catered to that sickest little aspect of our mentality, the idea that we could feel better about just how mediocre we are by putting a regular guy in the White House. —  CounterPunch
  • It creates a mentality, already embraced by many in the West, that terrorism —  Elder of Ziyon
  • The problem is that of mentality, the right mentality simply doesn't exist in some public officials. —  MRZine.org
  • Such a mentality isn't proper evaluation of your club's resources. —  Royals Review
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/mɛnˈtæləti/
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