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#characteristic

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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.


William John Wills


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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.


Jean Cocteau


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But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.


David Herbert Donald


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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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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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In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.


Andrew Greeley


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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


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


Lord Chesterfield


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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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