Top Characteristic 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
We regard intelligence as man's 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
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 it's gotten there yet.
Andy Summers
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
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
Warren Buffett 
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Kenneth L. Pike 
Henri Matisse 
Heywood Broun 
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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 we're now in so much trouble.
Stuart Symington 
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At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
Roman Jakobson
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Freeman Dyson
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People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
Andy Hertzfeld
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis
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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
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It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.
Avrum Stroll
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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