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For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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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

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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

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A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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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

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I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. ↗

— Eva Mendes

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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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