Characteristics quotes
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
-- Alexander Smith -
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
-- Amartya Sen -
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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
-- Aristophanes -
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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
-- Aristotle -
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.
-- Betty Boothroyd -
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Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
-- Brian Tracy -
Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
-- Catherine Ponder -
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.
-- Chester Bowles -
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Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.
-- Clare Morrall -
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
-- Clay Shirky -
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
-- David G. Hartwell -
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.
-- Dee Hock -
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Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
-- Drew Gilpin Faust -
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.
-- E. M. Delafield -
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.
-- Edward Everett -
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?
-- Edward Heath -
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
-- Edward T. Hall -
You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
-- Eloise Jarvis McGraw -
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
-- Emily Greene Balch -
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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
-- Emma Bonino -
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
-- Gary L. Francione -
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
-- Gregory Bateson -
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
-- Harriet Martineau -
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Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
-- Henry L. Stimson -
If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.
-- Henry Sloane Coffin -
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
-- Hermann Bondi -
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
-- James Dyson -
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A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
-- James S. Coleman -
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
-- James Weldon Johnson -
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
-- Janet Malcolm -
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
-- Jerome Bruner -
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
-- John Foster -
With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.
-- John Henry Holland -
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts,
-- Louis Althusser -
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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
-- Louis Leakey -
Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness?
-- Louis Mackey -
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
-- Mary Livermore -
You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.
-- Michael Ramsey -
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That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
-- Ned Sublette -
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.
-- Oswald Chambers -
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.
-- Richard Hamming -
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Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
-- Siegbert Tarrasch -
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
-- Sigmund Freud -
Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
-- Stephen R. Donaldson -
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
-- Thomas Nagel -
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Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.
-- Thorstein Veblen -
Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.
-- Timothy Mason -
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
-- Vasily Grossman -
It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior
-- Wallace Shawn -
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The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin
-- Wayne Grudem -
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
-- William Godwin -
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
-- William Hazlitt -
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
-- Austin O'Malley -
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There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.
-- Lance B. Wickman -
It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.
-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable -
It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.
-- Michal Kalecki -
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.
-- Paul Laffoley -
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One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.
-- Saul Friedlander -
Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.
-- Bill Ferguson -
It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.
-- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky -
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
-- F. E. Adcock -
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I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.
-- Khoi Vinh
