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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

  Country, Children, Europe

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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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

  Community, Stills, Regions

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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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

  Mind, Generations, Purpose

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• For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

  Johannes Stark

  Light, Atoms, Wave

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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

  Strong, Rays, Example

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• It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

  William Jackson

  Home, Character, Simple

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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

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Order

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• The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Automation, Do It Yourself

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• I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

  Summer Altice

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Winning, Looks

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• For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Unique, Journey

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• You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Future, Fighting

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• As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Saying Nothing, Few Words

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• A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Character, Men, Age

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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

  Play, Barbarism, Circumstances

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.143, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

  Aristotle

  Spiritual, Kindness, Men

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• Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

  Robin Morgan

  People, Groups, Oppression

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Science, Essence, Long

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

  Larry McMurtry

  Ignorance, Historical, Looks

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

  Jose Saramago

  Attitude, Haughtiness, Aliens

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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

  Facts, Prophet, Compassionate

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• I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, People, Holocaust

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• It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Music, People, Mechanic

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