Quotes About Characteristics
Around five-eight, slim, good shoulders, narrow hips, legs and trunk in proportion, short dark hair, side parting, dark eyes, probably blue, shadows under the eyes, fair skin, average nose, wide mouth, lower lip fuller than upper.
~ Val McDermid
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
~ Karl Pearson
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There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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Creativity is a unique characteristics that a person can posses from his or her own knowledge when he or she is creating changes in society that can benefit a vast amount of people.
~ Saaif Alam
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Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.
~ Patricia Briggs
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sullen earnestness, their authoritarianism, their self-conceit, and their vicious political ideas.
~ Peter Gay
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are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore
~ Peter Kreeft
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Cultural traits, however, are a more general category than memes, because they also include quantitative (smoothly-varying) characteristics that cannot be easily represented as discrete alternatives: for example, the inclination to trust strangers. (More on that below.)
~ Peter Turchin
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Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting jazz and scat, as in scat-singing, to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word.
~ David Lodge
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People high in mate value, those who possess desirable characteristics, are in great demand. Appreciating their traits is not enough for successful mating, however, just as spying a ripe berry bush down a steep and treacherous ravine is not enough for successful eating. The next step in mating is to compete successfully for a desirable mate.
~ David M. Buss
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The characteristics that men and women value are keys to understanding the means of attracting a mate.
~ David M. Buss
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Evolution refers to change over time in organic design. Characteristics, or "design features," that help an organism to survive and reproduce, relative to other organisms with different design features, get represented in future generations more than characteristics that are neutral or that impede survival and reproduction.
~ David M. Buss
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Worldwide, one of the most highly valued characteristics in a committed mate is kindness. It signals a willingness to engage in a cooperative alliance, an essential ingredient for success in long-term mating.
~ David M. Buss
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Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable- Caucasian characteristics for all. Her god would smite her, would hurl her from pinnacles and lose her in deserts. but she would not forsake his altars. Behind her crude words was a belief that somehow she and others through worship could attain her paradise- a heaven of straight-haired, thin-lipped, high-nose boned white seraphs.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
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Os excessos em todas as coisas modelam os corpos segundo suas características. A bebedeira, como o estudo, engorda mais aos gordos e emagrece aos magros.
~ Honore de Balzac
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Do what we will, women do not, and never will, possess the qualities which are characteristic of men, and these qualities are absolutely indispensable to family life.
~ Honore de Balzac
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France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics.
~ Honore de Balzac
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
~ William John Wills
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Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.
~ Nick Harkaway
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If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.
~ Paul Johnson
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Thus, within Linnaean terminology, a female characteristic (the lactating mamma) ties humans to brutes, while a traditionally male characteristic (reason) marks our separateness.
~ Unknown
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The smaller, delicate Blue-headed Parrots were Tiko's stature; indeed they are closely related to him. Instead of Tiko's red, their foreheads were a delicate deep blue, but otherwise they were a rich and varied green—the basic parrot palette.
~ Unknown
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The divine attributes are God's characteristics, the sum of which constitutes the definition of who he is. The
~ Unknown
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That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.
~ W. H. Auden
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