“Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species.”

Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

And the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed.

Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.

We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‘Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.’

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He’s hardcore to play because he’s displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification.

Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.