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  • Noam Chomsky Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • James A. Michener Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • George Santayana Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Jim Rohn Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • B. W. Powe Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Patterns, Seeds, Cloaking, Soul Circling, p. 86
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Fletcher Charity and beating begins at home.
    Wit Without Money (1625) 5, 2
    John Fletcher
    English playwright (1579 - 1625)
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  • Charles Dickens Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Joni Mitchell Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Charles Dickens Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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