#characteristic

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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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

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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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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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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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