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Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. ↗

— Jinato Hu

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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

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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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If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. ↗

— Jennifer Jones

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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

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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

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In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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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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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

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