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“Character isn't something you talk about”
— it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.
Brian Joyce The B-Side Diaries

“character isn’t something you talk about”
— it’s something you show through your actions—through your every day habits.
Brian Joyce

“He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum”
— this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.
Machado de Assis O Alienista

“Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy”
— their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.
Nenia Campbell Endgame

“I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform”
— I was on active duty all my time at school
I killed my enemy there.

“She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.”
— R.J. Lawrence, The Xactilias Project
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“People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences”
— in fact it was just the opposite.
Chad Harbach The Art of Fielding

“No one is free from something”
— something will surely be the reason for our actions!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Religion Philosophy and life

“The wise pause”
— the foolish react.
Todd Stocker

“Physicality is the basis of performance.”
— David Petersen, The Well-Tempered Body: Expressive Movement for Actors, Improvisers, and Performance Artists
acting drama theater

“Drama don't arrive by surprise”
— it is subconsciously attracted to fertile grounds.
T.F. Hodge From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

“Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets”
— and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.
Paul Shepheard How to Like Everything: A Utopia

“The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present”
— and an understanding of the facts of the problem -- a magnanimous understanding by both races -- is the first step toward its solution.
Chicago Commission on Race Relations The Negro in Chicago A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot

“Vengeance is primitive”
— which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals.
Matshona Dhliwayo

“A warrior confronts colonialism with the truth in order to regenerate authenticity and recreate a life worth living and principles worth dying for. The struggle is to restore connections severed by...”
— Taiaiake Alfred, Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom
colonialism indigenous resurgence struggle

“The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.”
— Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères
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“Finally, Slade had the thing he’d never thought he would have. The thing he’d never even thought he wanted. He had the same thing his best friend had with his sister: he had the love of a woman. No...”
— Sidney Halston, Full Contact
sweet

“Whilst personal effectiveness focuses more on your personal development goals as you become the best practitioner in your area of specialty”
— leadership excellence shifts the focus to your leadership development in making a difference to the greater circle within your areas of influence and beyond. Leadership excellence focuses on areas of concern on behalf of others because a leader is expected to grow from personal effectiveness to begin making a significant impact on the world around them.
Archibald Marwizi Making Success Deliberate

“The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness”
— but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
Arthur C. Clarke Rendezvous with Rama

“They’d arranged to meet with an Omegan mole who worked in the Clinton administration. He was helping them with a new Omega Agency operation involving the Kosovo War, which had just broken out in Eu...”
— James Morcan, The Orphan Factory
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