#characteristics

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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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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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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Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. ↗

— Keith Henson

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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ↗

— John W. Foster

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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