Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat."
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Characteristics
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Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."
Cat Stevens
Singer-songwriter
"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes."
Confucius
Philosopher
"Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity."
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"Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
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"Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets."
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"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."
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"It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."
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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."
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"The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural."
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"The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity."
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"If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?"
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"An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty."
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"In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite."
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"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
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"Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation."
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"This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither."
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"It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray."
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"Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics."
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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."
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"[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.""
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"Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason."
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"Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind."
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"A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have."
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