Quotes by Characteristics Futility is the defining characteristic of life. Stephen R. Donaldson characteristics futility-of-life defining 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. Sydney J. Harris characteristics treats lessons Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. Thomas Nagel manifestation characteristics interesting Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. Thorstein Veblen characteristics innovation class To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process. Thomas Sowell characteristics definitions democracy In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Tim Ferriss characteristics excess opposites Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic. Timothy Mason intangible characteristics trust Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. Tom Robbins beets potatoes characteristics He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. Vasily Grossman characteristics endurance madmen 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 characteristics problem feels The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin Wayne Grudem characteristics devil sin Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. William Godwin unequivocal characteristics humans Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind. Winston Churchill characteristics education firsts One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky. Tom Wilkinson plays very characteristics made I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics. Savion Glover deal colors characteristics shapes One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch. Rory MacLean germans most characteristics love Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true. John Hanning Speke tribe each true characteristics I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics. Mousa Dembele notice both african characteristics Different players have different characteristics. Massimiliano Allegri players characteristics different Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs. Peter R. Grant songs species characteristics «12345678»