#characteristic

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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

— Lord Chesterfield

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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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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 would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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