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Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
Amartya Sen
Malnourishment is the trait of some people not having adequate sustenance. It is not the attribute of there being an absence of nourishment.
2.
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
Joseph Goebbels
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It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
Melanie Klein
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If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.
Henry Sloane Coffin
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Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.
Clare Morrall
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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
Emma Bonino
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
Edward T. Hall
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It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.
Louis Althusser
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It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior
Wallace Shawn
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The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".
Marshall McLuhan
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
Thomas Nagel
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A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
James S. Coleman
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
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Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
Gregory Bateson
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Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
Dmitri Mendeleev
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The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Cat Stevens
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The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
Robert Trout
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But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
Richard Serra
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What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.
Sigmund Freud
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Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
James Madison
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Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
Howard Schultz
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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
Aristotle
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
Confucius
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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
Mary Livermore
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So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
Louis Leakey
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The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.
Adolf Hitler
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
John Maynard Keynes
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Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
Catherine Ponder
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Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.
Martin Amis
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Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum
mechanics.
Erwin Schrodinger
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It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.
Kevin DeYoung
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Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.
Henry L. Stimson
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
Sydney J. Harris
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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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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
James Weldon Johnson
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Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Tom Robbins
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Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.
Timothy Mason
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
Alexander Smith
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Gary L. Francione
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The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.
Drew Gilpin Faust
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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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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil
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The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Jerome Bruner
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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
Molly Ivins
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You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.
Michael Ramsey
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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