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"Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited."	Rose Dorothy Freeman
"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"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
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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
"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."	Margaret Halsey
"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character."	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
"Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice."	Richard Harris
"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."	Richard Hofstadter
"The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination."	Richard Hofstadter
"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 strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."	Thomas Jefferson
"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."	Thomas Jefferson
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