Characterizes Quotes
59 quotes by 55 authors
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing…
— Lionel Trilling
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
— Max De Pree
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The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and…
— David Limbaugh
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The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is…
— Charles Colson
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I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when…
— Jonathan Ames
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
— Whitfield Diffie
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In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is…
— Allan Kardec
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One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is…
— Eric Hoffer
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I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it…
— William Brinkley
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....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not…
— Patricio Aylwin
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It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian...
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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