Characterized Quotes
148 quotes by 144 authors
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On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized…
— Joe Slovo
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
— Imre Lakatos
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The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love…
— Ellen G. White
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in…
— Walker Percy
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The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
— Mark Twain
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A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity,…
— Mary McCarthy
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An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out…
— Elinor Lipman
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Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
— Meghan O'Rourke
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
— Max Weber
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We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is strong enough to…
— Salle Merrill Redfield
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The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But…
— Bernadette Roberts
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a…
— Niels Bohr
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1,…
— Ted Dekker
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People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair.…
— Eric Holder
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
— J. Philippe Rushton
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Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It…
— David R. Hawkins
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True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.
— Edwin Land
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