I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. ― Marilyn Monroe

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.- Oscar Wilde

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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Ain't fit for man nor beast ― W.C. Fields

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Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.

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To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

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The worst thing a man can be addicted to is comfort. - Unknown

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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. - Charles Spurgeon

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