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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."	(Matthew) Heywood
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."	Abraham Lincoln
"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
"Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?"	Albert Einstein
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."	Albert Einstein
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."	Albert Einstein
"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
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."	Anne Frank
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."	Æschylus
"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
"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character."	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
"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 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
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Character is what you are in the dark."	Dwight Lyman Moody
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."	Eleanor Roosevelt
"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
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."	Euripides
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Douglas Noel Adams	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dwight Lyman Moody
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