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Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

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.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

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

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

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.

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.

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

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

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.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.