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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

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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

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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

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The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

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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

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

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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

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Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way. ↗

— Todd English

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