"Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply……" — Gordon Tullock

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• Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis
• It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within… — Aldous Huxley
• Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn… — Unknown Author
• The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as… — Lewis H. Lapham
• I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary… — Gordon Tullock
• Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in… — Brian Aldiss
• Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and… — Tom Waits
• Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of… — Czeslaw Milosz
• The American child is a highly intelligent human being; characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, has a strong sense… — Walt Disney
• Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable.… — A. S. Byatt
• The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your… — Paul Theroux
• Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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