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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. -- Aristophanes
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. -- James S. Coleman
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. -- Alex Haley
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. -- Dave Barry
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. -- Willard Scott
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. -- Jean Cocteau
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. -- Khalil Gibran
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. -- Joan D. Vinge
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Characteristics cling to families. -- Francis Galton
Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance. -- Thomas Aquinas
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. -- Henry David Thoreau
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. -- Samuel Johnson
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. -- John Foster
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. -- Warren Buffett
Characteristics of strength and individuality requires confidence and self-assurance to choose what is right against all odds. -- Lorna Jackie Wilson
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. -- Gary L. Francione
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. -- Francis Ford Coppola
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. -- Robertson Davies
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another. -- Louis Farrakhan
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. -- Nick Rahall
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
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' -- Marshall McLuhan
It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land. -- Jim Costa
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. -- Andrew Greeley
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. -- Milton Glaser
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
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
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. -- Ana Gasteyer
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. -- Preston Manning
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. -- E. M. Forster
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. -- Summer Altice
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. -- Dennis Prager
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor. -- Marge Kennedy
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. -- Franz Boas
For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world. -- Henry B. Eyring
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly. -- Simon Sinek
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics. -- Isabel Allende
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. -- Orson Pratt
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff. -- Alan Greenspan
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors. -- Jack Horner
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.' -- David Suzuki
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive. -- Jane Goodall
I despise in others my own characteristics. -- Janeane Garofalo
Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed. -- Aristotle
Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness. -- Richard C. Edgley
Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love. -- Nhat Hanh
Women have different characteristics and needs than men do. -- Sallie Krawcheck
The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics. -- Louis Leakey
There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience. -- Eraldo Banovac
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. -- Richard Hamming
Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs. -- Peter R. Grant
Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language. -- Betty Boothroyd
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics. -- Mohsin Hamid
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. -- Mary Livermore
He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty. -- Sam Houston
Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man. -- Samuel Smiles
Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people. -- Archie Lee
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. -- William Godwin
One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now." -- Ann Landers
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. -- Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. -- Felix Frankfurter
Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men. -- Horace Mann
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image. -- Moses ibn Ezra
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. -- Dee Hock
The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths. -- Kathryn Schulz
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. -- Tim Ferriss
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love. -- Gary Zukav
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. -- Samuel Johnson
A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen -- Kevin VanDam
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. -- Hermann Bondi
Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization, -- Jiang Zemin
Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough. -- John Simon
Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese. -- Henry L. Stimson
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. -- Benjamin Disraeli
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. -- John Foster
The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion. -- Adolf Hitler
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. -- Teju Cole
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. -- Gregory Bateson
Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word. -- Douglas Booth
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. -- Plato
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn? -- Confucius
Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most. -- Josiah Strong
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics. -- Andreas Feininger
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill. -- Boris Johnson
Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success. -- Peter Senge
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure -- Nathaniel Branden
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. -- Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. -- Tom Robbins
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. -- Keith Henson
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. -- Marshall McLuhan
The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well. -- Rob Paulsen
A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It has been suggested that the color of an aura can reveal characteristics about the generating source. -- Mark Ireland
When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival. -- Francis Chan
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. -- James Weldon Johnson
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. -- R. Heber Newton
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics. -- George Akerlof
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -- James Fisher
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. -- Thomas Nagel
The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better. -- John Henry Fischer
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance. -- Jane Smiley
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. -- Helen Vendler
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities. -- Marco Rubio
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. -- Sidney Lumet
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. -- Noam Chomsky
The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally. -- Tim Lee
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. -- Karl Pearson
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics. -- Ellen Glasgow
The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset. -- Primo Angeli

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