Characterizes Quotes

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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
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce
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
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
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
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
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
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain. — Max De Pree
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediahâ€™s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality inÂ OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and… — David Limbaugh
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
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
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance — Whitfield Diffie
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
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
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
....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
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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