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Hillary Clinton was completely misguided and uninformed with regards to the intention of Putin, (current Prime Minister Dmitry) Medvedev and Russia. And her great mistake was characterized by her pressing that reset button with a great big smile ... that somehow she thought Russia was going to be our friend and ally.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It’s been a very positive session characterized by rich and in-depth discussions on all aspects of the proposal for the reforms package which is being prepared.

Francois Carrard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have characterized it as a suspicious incident, but we have made it very clear that it had nothing to do with us.

Park Yong Chol

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was a mind-set characterized by a preference for military action over diplomacy, a mind-set that put a premium on U.S. action over the painstaking work of building international consensus. A mind-set that exaggerated threats beyond what the intelligence supported.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

[A]n ultra-marathoner typically possesses an ironclad identity characterized by a strongbelief of completing any task that will face them in competition.

Jeff Brown

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our life is characterized by a constant dialogue between our self and consumption-- consumption as biological waste, of ourselves and others, but also the trivial destruction of products.

Maurizio Savini

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There is the vibrant, beautiful, urban community that is characterized by ongoing renaissance, and the poor, less educated, less visited, which faces more challenges, both Baltimores have been making progress in recent years.

Anirban Basu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

Jeremy Rifkin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

Albert Einstein

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14 years ago

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