Jeff Bezos

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

American Businessman

Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Tibetan Leader

John Ruskin

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

English Writer

Maria Montessori

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

Italian Educator

Keir Starmer

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

British Politician

Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

German Physicist

Richard Hayne

I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.

Desmond Tutu

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

South African Leader

Kevin Plank

I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.

Kim Kardashian

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

American Celebrity

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 characterized by a volume of erupted material, many times greater than that of ordinary volcanoes. And while the popular image of volcanic destruction is molten rock engulfing the surrounding land, far greater devastation is caused by what remains in the air.

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 attack eliminating the threat altogether and I would like to make a case to you that over the years since we first develop atomic weaponry until this very moment we've actually lived in a dangerous nuclear world that's characterized by two phases which I'm

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 grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. There's also narcissistic personality disorder, a more extreme form, which we'll return to shortly. Grandiose narcissism is the most familiar kind, characterized by extroversion, dominance, and attention seeking.

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 that are characterized by their long limbs. They are also characterized by only having four fingers on their hands, and they are normally found in primary forests, especially this species. And- well, they are critically endangered.

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 that really impact how we should respond to it? We're still not able to characterize who the super-spreaders are in terms of what that profile is, and we may never. That may just be quite random. If you could identify them,

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 What characterizes sentient beings in contrast to robots, to stones, to whatever, is that sentient beings suffer, can suffer, and what they should focus on is not finding their place in some mysterious cosmic drama.

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 what I call your "idiogenic" nature. Let me explain. One of the things that characterizes extroverts is they need stimulation. And that stimulation can be achieved by finding things that are

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 that an economy is best understood as an ecosystem and characterized by the same kinds of feedback loops you find in a natural ecosystem, a feedback loop between customers and businesses.

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 difficult means not easy to deal with or to manage characterized by causing hardship or problems a difficult person makes a fuss for no reason she's