“ It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. ”
- James Weldon Johnson- Copy
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“ LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ We believe that some of Adam's characteristics can still be seen in Southern Africa but we need to find out what they are. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose. ”
- Alymer Letterman- Copy
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“ If an uninterested spectator, after a careful perusal of the New Testament, were asked what he conceived to be its distinguishing characteristic, he would reply without hesitation, That wonderful spirit of philanthropy by which it is distinguished. It is a perpetual commentary on that sublime aphorism, 'God is love… ”
- Robert Hall- Copy
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“ Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog… ”
- Colin Wilson- Copy
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“ Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. ”
- Richard Harris- Copy
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“ Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. ”
- Linda Bowles- Copy
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“ Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
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“ Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ”
- Diogenes- Copy
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“ The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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“ The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. ”
- David Lean- Copy
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“ Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are. ”
- Ian Hart- Copy
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“ That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing. ”
- Catherine Deneuve- Copy
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“ But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. ”
- Oliver Stone- Copy
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“ A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
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“ A typical minority group stereotype — woman as nigger — if she knows her place she is really a quite lovable, loving creature, happy and childlike. ”
- Naomi Weisstein- Copy
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“ Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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