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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

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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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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

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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

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One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

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Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics." ↗

— Helen Rowland

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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

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