#properties

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

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However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. ↗

— Robert Huber

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Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ↗

— Henry Clay

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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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