Characteristics Quotes
792 quotes by 648 authors
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If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is…
— Paul Johnson
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There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and…
— Martin Seligman
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One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.
— Teju Cole
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to…
— Daniel Everett
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One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a…
— Isabel Allende
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Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen…
— Isabel Allende
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I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their…
— Martin Parr
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One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.
— Jim Lee
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What…
— Alan Greenspan
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The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
— Helen Vendler
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By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in…
— George William Russell
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One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal…
— Martin Jacques
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If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to…
— Martin Jacques
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In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of…
— Marianne Williamson
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The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it…
— Noam Chomsky
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Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not.…
— Ben Shapiro
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
— Gary Zukav
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In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our…
— Mikhail Sholokhov
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Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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