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• The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

  Edmund Wilson

  Humanity, Causes, Communism

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• To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

  Eric Hoffer

  Powerful, Men, Law

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 163, 1973.

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• Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not of human design, and whose behavior is suggestive of intelligent control.

  Peter Davenport

  Strong, Intelligent, Design

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• Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

  William DeWitt Hyde

  Opportunity, Optimism, Growth

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• The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Mein Kampf, Jew

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• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Order, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• The market being in a trend is the main thing that eventually gets us in a trade. That is a pretty simple idea. Being consistent and making sure you do that all the time is probably more important than the particular characteristics you use to define the trend. Whatever method you use to enter trades, the most critical thing is that if there is a major trend, your approach should assure that you get in that trend.

  Richard Dennis

  Simple, Ideas, Important

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• Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.

  Peter Bull

  Loyalty, Common Sense, Age

  Peter Bull (1969). “The teddy bear book”

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• It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

  Wallace Shawn

  Problem, Feels, Humans

  Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.22, Haymarket Books

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• I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.

  Paul O'Grady

  Attitude, Years, Roots

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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

  Celebration, Parody, Mockery

  "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Redbook interview, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

  Lisa Rinna

  Next Chapter, Lips, Defining

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• All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Real, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.

  Kengo Kuma

  Thinking, Light, Important

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her love for her husband. The love between husband and wife is the real key to a thriving family. A healthy home environment cannot be built exclusively on the parents' love for their children. The properly situated family has marriage at the center; families shouldn't revolve around the children.

  John F. MacArthur

  Mother, Children, Husband

  John F. MacArthur (2006). “Twelve Extraordinary Women Workbook”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

  James Madison

  Procrastination, Body, Conclusion

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• It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does entail 'I feel a pain'. So scepticism loses its force - cannot open up its characteristic gap - with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain.

  Galen Strawson

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

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• I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

  Ansel Adams

  Believe, Artist, Next

  "The Negative". Book by Ansel Adams (Introduction to second edition), 1981.

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• I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

  George Washington

  Prayer, Blessed, Humble

  Circular Letter to the Governours of the several States, June 18, 1783.

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• I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated, and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one.

  James Madison

  Government, Principles, Bidding

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.546

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• What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Illusion, Humans

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

  Carl Rogers

  Good Life, Believe, New Experiences

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

  Louis Althusser

  Self, Facts, Ideology

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• Racism is very characteristic of imperialism and capitalism. Hate against me has a lot to do with racism. Because of my big mouth and curly hair. And I'm so proud to have this mouth and this hair, because it is African.

  Hugo Chavez

  Hate, Hair, Racism

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• The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed.

  Sol LeWitt

  Interesting, Three, Use

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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