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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

Topics: Adaptation Any Back Beginning Characteristic Environment Go Human Human Race Must Race Source Uniform Very Widespread

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The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: Advertising Aggressive Any Characteristic Chief Degrading Even Excluded Existence First Immoral News Notices Ostentatious Police Purity Reports Theater Were Whether

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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

~Emile M. Cioran

Topics: Attention Characteristic Die Double Impossibility Live Man Neither Never Nor Obsession Suicide Who Whose

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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

Topics: Age Aspect Based Being Characteristic Industrialization Machinery One Aspect Our Referred Revolution Technology Wrought

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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Affecting Backward Characteristic Communities More Nationalism New Our Our Time People Peripheral Regions Second So-Called Spreading Still Time

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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

~Emma Bonino

Topics: Am Characteristic Feminine Flexibility Positive I Am

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The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

~Eric Schmidt

Topics: Actually Characteristic Companies Great Innovators Invent Just Know Listen Moment Must Needed New Others People Say See Something Something New Space Tell Them You

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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

Topics: Ambition Because Become Characteristic Define Defining Definitely Does Frustrating Humour Image Intellect Love Me Out Put Responsible Sense Sexy Want Well Will

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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.

~Federica Montseny

Topics: Anarchist Aspirations Been Characteristic Create Development Fully Historic Masses Movement Must Order Our People Realise Responsibility Sacrifice Sense Spain Throughout

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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

~Francis Ford Coppola

Topics: Characteristic Cook Ideas Imagination Just More Talent Than Up Vivid

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