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At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
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
A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice… — Gordon Tullock
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such… — David Dark
All art has this characteristic-it unites people. — Leo Tolstoy
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. — Satyajit Ray
The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics… — Oswald Chambers
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological… — Albert Einstein
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our… — George Santayana
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. — Lord Chesterfield
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable. — Charles Dudley Warner
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the… — Joseph Campbell
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation… — Desmond Morris
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon… — Hannah Arendt
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in… — Andrea Dworkin
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. — Harvey Cox
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its… — Thomas Sowell
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount… — Azim Premji

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