#characteristics

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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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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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ↗

— John W. Foster

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

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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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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics. ↗

— David Moranis

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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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