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More Characteristic Quotes

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• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino
• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett
• Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
• The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves… — Emile M. Cioran
• Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
• The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of… — Hannah Arendt
• Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and… — Hu Jintao
• A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
• Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis

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