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Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Amartya Sen (1981). “Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation”, p.1, Oxford University Press

Characteristics cling to families.

Sir Francis Galton (1870). “Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences”, p.5

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson (1987). “Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred”, MacMillan Publishing Company

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.7