One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
[Mujib Rahman] is mad, mad! And they're all mad, the press included, who repeat after him, "Three million dead, three million dead!"… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up,… — Chris Evert Copy Share Image
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all,… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
“Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you… — Bill Ferguson Copy Share Image
Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“What makes a good leader? I ask myself this every day, and then as I begin to list off characteristics I realize… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
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