- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Characterized Quotes
What defines a life, an era, or an idea.
This characterized quotes page explores the traits that come to define a person's outlook, an entertainment era's tone, or a nation's shifting mood. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by intense pressure to meet aggressive and unrealistic sales goals. In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Mr. Stumpf wrote that Wells Fargo's goal was eight products per customer because eight rhymed with great.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Trump administration has been characterized by adhocracy during its initial months. The initiative limiting immigration is a case in point. The new policy was not vetted fully within the administration - indeed, then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates first read the decision after the text of the new executive order was published online.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020