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Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour. ↗

— Lars von Trier

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In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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