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Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.
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Terry Goodkind

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Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.
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Thomas Spencer Monson

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I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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Tom Cruise

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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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Tom Stoppard

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You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar

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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
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Sir Michael Caine

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My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.
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Stephen Colbert

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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
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Steven Spielberg

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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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John Adams

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The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers
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John Adams

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We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
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John Adams

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The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.
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John Adams

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When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He . . . had heard that Mr. Duche . . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche . . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress . . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.
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John Adams

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Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
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John Adams

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We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.
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John Adams

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The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."
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John Adams

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The United States of America...has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility of Muslims.
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John Adams

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And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
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John Adams

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[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.
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John Adams

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There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.
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Ari Graynor

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When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
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Ari Graynor

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Calvin Coolidge

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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Calvin Coolidge

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It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.
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Calvin Coolidge

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The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.
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Calvin Coolidge

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We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!
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Calvin Coolidge

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There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.
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Calvin Coolidge

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It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
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Calvin Coolidge

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America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Calvin Coolidge

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If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.
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Calvin Coolidge

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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Calvin Coolidge

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There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
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Calvin Coolidge

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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
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Calvin Coolidge

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Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
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Calvin Coolidge

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We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.
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Calvin Coolidge

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Money will not purchase character or good government.
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Calvin Coolidge

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Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

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"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
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Theodore Roosevelt

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Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).
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Oswald Chambers

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The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
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Oswald Chambers

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When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.
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Oswald Chambers

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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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Oswald Chambers

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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
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Oswald Chambers

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It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
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Oswald Chambers

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Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.
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Oswald Chambers

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The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.
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Oswald Chambers

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God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.
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Oswald Chambers

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