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"For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork." »Neil Gershenfeld
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"If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time." »Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." »Alan Turing
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"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav
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"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." »Philip K. Dick, Valis
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"Confusion is always the most honest response." »Marty Indik
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"Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die." »F. Forrester Church
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"Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice." »Richard Harris
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"Grief is a normal healthy response to loss" »The Omani Shed
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"Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
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"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment." »Freeman John Dyson
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts." »Nikki Giovanni
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"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." »Robert J. Shiller
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"I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life." »Malcolm Boyd
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"What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge" »Bette Greene
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created." »Anonymous
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"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept." »D. H. Lawrence
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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank." »Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor." »Jennifer Jones
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"The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people." »Marsha Evans
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"If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962." »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]
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"Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill" »Robert C. Byrd
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"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering
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"Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored." »Sir Ronald A. Fisher
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"" »Richard M. DeVos
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