Characterizes Quotes

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and… — Honore de Balzac
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity. — Patricia Hill Collins
Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we… — T. Colin Campbell
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. — Albert Schweitzer
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of… — Milan Kundera
That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place… — Thomas Jefferson
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the… — Tullian Tchividjian
The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section… — David Perlmutter
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. — Tom Cotton
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through… — Tom Cotton
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names,… — Thomas Mann
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we… — George Pierce Baker
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the… — George C. Williams
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. — Paul Ricoeur
As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by… — Enrique Vila-Matas
Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that… — Emily Hilburn Sell
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with goingforward, with considering thesequence of generations a… — Milan Kundera (b 1929)

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