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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances."	Donald Creighton
"The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way."	Marquis de Sade
"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."	Freeman John Dyson
"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next."	Johathan Edwards
"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."	Euripides
"We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank."	Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."	Hanna Holborn Gray
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."	Eleanor Roosevelt
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."	W. Somerset Maugham
"What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination."	Warren G. Bennis
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."	Tryon Edwards
"Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality."	William R(ichard) Allen
"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow."	Elias Boudinot
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."	Phillips Brooks
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