Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.

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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? - Seth Godin

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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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The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farrah Gray

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Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

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Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

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