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• My characteristics [of Ideal Black Man.] aren't as specific. I'm more general. I'm more like, I have to be able to talk to him. You know, we have to have good communications. He has to be interested in the world. You know what I mean. Like interested in learning and adventurous and curious, 'cause that's what I am. He has to be passionate about something. And it would be nice if he had a job. It's not like he has to have an MBA.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Jobs, Nice, Communication

  Source: www.today.com

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• [This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he will be successful in repulsing your attacks and terrorizing your position.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophical, Successful, Giving

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• The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Average, Progress, Improvement

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• A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless molecule and a deadly addictive one.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Sex, Differences, Males

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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."

  Leon Trotsky

  Ideas, Revolution, Leon

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".

  Leon Trotsky

  Real, Party, Struggle

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Secret, Want, Fighter

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Simple, Innovation, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Men, Different, Needs

  "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.

  Elliott Sober

  Ideas, Littles, Ancestry

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

  Max Lucado

  Unique, Done, Christianity

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Goal, Black, Important

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might easily have been someone else.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Teacher, Latin, Sea

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• One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

  Salman Rushdie

  Long, Mud, Sticks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

  Edward de Bono

  Mind, Facts, Commodity

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• The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cutting

  "Kobe Bryant On The Black Mamba". Interview with Benjamin Clymer, www.askmen.com. June 11, 2009.

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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

  Doe, Human Nature, Certain

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Vivid Imagination, Ideas, Talent

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• Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

  Alan Cumming

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Shakespeare and me: Alan Cumming". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if we recognize something as being new when it first appears. Usually I think we don't have that privilege. It's usually after the fact that we suddenly turn around and say, 'Wow, this thing is amazing.'

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, Lucky, Wow

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• Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

  James Fenton

  Art, Names, Quality

  "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• 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

  War, Records, Firsts

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• Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Race, Islam, Racist

  "Islam is not a monolith" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2013.

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• The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Creating

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• I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Mankind, Texan

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