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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Progress
Gaston Bachelard

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Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Writers and Writing
Arnold Bennett

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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Human Nature
Warren Buffett

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Power
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Laughter
Lord Chesterfield

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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Motivation
John W. Foster

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Character
Felix Frankfurter

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Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
Feminism
J. S. Habgood

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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson

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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Leaders and Leadership
Robert Lindner

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Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
Pride
Austin O'Malley

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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau

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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
America
Mark Twain

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.
Courage
Source Unknown

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You already have every characteristic necessary for success.
Success
Source Unknown

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One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Winners and Winning
Denis Waitley

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Philanthropists
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun