Character

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  • Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things.
        Yoda   Best?
  • Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
        Edward Everett Hale   Best?
  • Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
        John Adams   Best?
  • A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast)
        Julius Ceasar   Best?
  • God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
        Holly Lisle   Best?
  • Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  • The only real possession you'll ever have is your character.
        Tom Wolfe   Best?
  • Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.
        Janet Fitch   Best?
  • Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
        George Santayana   Best?
  • I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
        Bob Dylan   Best?
  • What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
        Anne Michaels   Best?
  • Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • Discretion is not the better part of biography.
        Lytton Strachey   Best?
  • For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
        Nathaniel Emmons   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
        Plato   Best?
  • Quality is never an accident.
        Willa A. Foster   Best?
  • The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
        Eric Hoffer   Best?
  • A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  • Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • You have brains in your head.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • I know why the caged bird sings.
        Maya Angelou   Best?
  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
        Alain de Lille   Best?
  • In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • We are the hero of our own story.
        Mary McCarthy   Best?
  • In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
        John Steinbeck   Best?
  • If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
        William James   Best?
  • Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
        C. S. Lewis   Best?

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