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Characteristic Quotes by Margaret Mead
- One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong…
- Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what…
More Characteristic Quotes
- The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino
- There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett
- Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
- The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this… — Emile M. Cioran
- Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
- The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong,… — Hannah Arendt
- Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world… — Hu Jintao
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus
- Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis