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Characteristic Quotes
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. - Kingsley Amis Quotes
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. - Henri Matisse Quotes
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. - Jose Saramago Quotes
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. - Warren Buffett Quotes
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. - Roman Jakobson Quotes
The thing thats characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. - Laurie Anderson Quotes
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. - Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large. - Martin Van Buren Quotes
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. - Emile M Cioran Quotes
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. - Freeman Dyson Quotes
We regard intelligence as mans main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate. - Henri Bergson Quotes
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. - Heywood Broun Quotes
Indeed it is a characteristic of most human beings, whether politicians or not, to flatter themselves on their knowledge of history. - Douglas Hurd Quotes
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. - Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. - Rudy Giuliani Quotes
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset Quotes
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don think its gotten there yet. - Andy Summers Quotes
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. - Alan Dundes Quotes
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace. - James D Watkins Quotes
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. - Kenneth L Pike Quotes
By reading the characteristic features of any mans castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. - John Dewey Quotes
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. - Arthur Henderson Quotes
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. - Elie Wiesel Quotes
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. - Simone Weil Quotes
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. - Robin Morgan Quotes
Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons were now in so much trouble. - Stuart Symington Quotes
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. - Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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