The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever. — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll. — Saul Friedlander Copy Share Image
Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities)… — Amy Trask Copy Share Image
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
That's really the big inspiration of this movie. It's really looking at a man who's really showing all the traits and all… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
We still dislike hypocrites. It's a very American characteristic. We still like people who have ideas and who are willing to stand… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“He hovered, as it were, on the fringes of both the scientific and the classical worlds, making, apparently, no deep impression on… — Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
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