Characterized Quotes
148 quotes by 144 authors
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be…
— Jeff Bezos
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Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
— David Cameron
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair,…
— Anton Chekhov
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A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
— Ray Fitzgerald
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The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man…
— Dave Barry
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
— Paulo Freire
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even…
— Elbert Hubbard
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The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities…
— Walter Bonatti
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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism.…
— G. Stanley Hall
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
— Henri Bergson
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In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to…
— Marion G. Romney
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A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is…
— Claude Bernard
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Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent…
— Robert E. Lee
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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,…
— Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an…
— Gordon Shepherd
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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his…
— E T A Hoffmann
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The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities…
— Thomas Merton
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