"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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"If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost."
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"A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered."
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"Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers."
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"If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics."
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"The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion."
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"All art has this characteristic-it unites people."
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"There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American."
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"The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness."
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"Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men."
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