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I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little... -- Jerry Garcia
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity. -- Desmond Tutu
India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation. -- Pratibha Patil
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -- Albert Einstein
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. -- David Cameron
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. -- Max Weber
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. -- Georg Simmel
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States. -- David Scott
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. -- Thomas E. Mann
The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax. -- John Roberts
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. -- James D. Watson
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate. -- Ann Coulter
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. -- Paul Hawken
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. -- Dalai Lama
Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. -- John Edward Redmond
The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect. -- Evo Morales
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers. -- Andy Behrman
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. -- Richard V. Allen
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society. -- Janet Jackson
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. -- Paul Ricoeur
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better. -- Joyce Carol Oates
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. -- Anton Chekhov
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores. -- Lorin Maazel
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. -- Alice Walker
People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in. -- Eric Holder
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves. -- Paul Johnson
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life. -- Henri Bergson
Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives. -- George Soros
The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development. -- Margaret Heffernan
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy. -- Oswald Chambers
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. -- Audre Lorde
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. -- Herbert Simon
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek -- Herbert Simon
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual. -- Paulo Freire
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. -- Aristotle
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. -- Eben Alexander
Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products. -- Marsha Blackburn
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. -- Imre Lakatos
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. -- Ray Fitzgerald
Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers. -- Eric Ries
Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. -- Alexander Hamilton
The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself. -- Masha Tupitsyn
Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it's conversations around how to end hunger and poverty. -- Raj Patel
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. -- Mark Twain
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness. -- Rollo May
A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm. -- Dalai Lama
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. -- J. Philippe Rushton
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment. -- American Psychiatric Association
Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance. -- R. C. Sproul
Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time. -- Paul Samuelson
Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical, -- Junichiro Koizumi
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. -- John Thorn
True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after. -- Edwin Land
Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements. -- Abraham Myerson
Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change. -- Harold Washington
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Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. -- Niklaus Wirth
My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident. -- Colin Callender
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". -- Moses Finley
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness. -- Leo Tolstoy
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps." -- Joshua R. Sands
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise. -- Harold E. Varmus
Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions. -- George Will
My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America]. -- Sergio Leone
A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being. -- Francis Chan
I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon. -- Barry Goldwater
We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win. -- Jochen Zeitz
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In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry. -- Hermann Weyl
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope. -- Ramana Maharshi
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve. -- Charles Francis Richter
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. -- Anna Quindlen
Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. -- Richard Rohr
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts. -- Gerald Fischbach
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital. -- George Soros
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. -- William Howard Taft
Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists. -- Laurie Glimcher
When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too. -- Donnie Yen
It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number. -- John Roberts
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. -- Max Nordau
Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]? -- Thomas S. Monson
I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.' -- Mike Huckabee
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect. -- Mary McCarthy
I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization like that would not have reserved judgment (until) making their own investigation. -- Jamie Dimon
The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter. -- Herbert Croly
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. ' -- Claude Bernard
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. -- Elbert Hubbard
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'. -- Criss Jami
The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch. -- Dave Barry
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age. -- Thomas Merton
We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays. -- Irene Joliot-Curie
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. -- Alva Myrdal
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all. -- Chrissie Hynde
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy. -- Alex Carey
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement. -- Aristotle
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone). -- Eric S. Raymond
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic. -- Herbert Croly
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. -- Karen Abbott
Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of " capital ." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content. -- Werner Sombart
We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do. -- Mario Cuomo
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth. -- Leonard Shlain
Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized. -- Pamela Ronald
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia. -- Walker Percy
A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth. -- Ellen G. White
Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas. -- Marilyn Suzanne Miller
...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon... -- Peter Lesley
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare. -- Matthew Arnold
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an inscrutable complexity of form, extent, and relationships with each other. -- Gordon Shepherd
On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles. -- Joe Slovo

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