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"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79....."	Douglas Noel Adams
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."	George Burton Adams
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."	Æschylus
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."	Aesop
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."	Saul David Alinsky
"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
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."	Faith Baldwin
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."	Bernard Mannes Baruch
"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
"Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny."	George Dana Boardman
"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
"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
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."	(Matthew) Heywood
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."	Haywood Hale Broun
"The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby."	I Ching
"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart."	Henry Clay
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."	Henry Clay
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Eleanor Roosevelt	Elias Boudinot	Ernest Miller Hemingway
Euripides	Evan Esar	Faith Baldwin
Freeman John Dyson	George Santayana	George Burton Adams
George Dana Boardman	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hanna Holborn Gray	Haywood Hale Broun	Helen Adams Keller
Helen Gahagan Douglas	Henry Clay	Herbert Mitgang
I Ching	James Albert Michener	Jean Nathan Miller
Jennifer Jones	Joan Didion	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johathan Edwards	John Keats	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Kenneth Galbraith	John Stuart Mill	Jose Ortega y Gasset
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Margaret Halsey
Marquis de Sade	Marsha Evans	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Phillips Brooks	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Harris	Richard Hofstadter	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard M. Devos	Rose Dorothy Freeman	Sam Ewing
Saul David Alinsky	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Babington Macaulay
Tryon Edwards	W. Somerset Maugham	Warren G. Bennis
William Golding	William R(ichard) Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(Matthew) Heywood	Æschylus