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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
Henry David Thoreau 
Gaston Bachelard 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
John Kenneth Galbraith 
Elie Wiesel 
Pierre Curie 
Jennifer Jones 
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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 
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Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
Alma Gluck
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm
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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
George H. Mead
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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
Charles Eastman
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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
Emily Greene Balch
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
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Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Jose Ortega y GassetHerbert ReadChristian Lous LangeHenri BergsonEllsworth HuntingtonHenri MatisseArthur HendersonKenneth L. PikeElie WieselEmma BoninoMartin Van BurenAndy SummersTom GlazerCharles EastmanEmily Greene Balch
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