Quotes 461 till 480 of 527.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
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We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68 -
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and atheism. Or go back to the American way, Judeo-Christian values, which meritocracy is part of it. The idea that content and character and talent are colorblind.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character .
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.
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Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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