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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
chinese delicate feeling float period pressured reasonable sensitive stop
We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things. Charles Schumer
chinese improve promises property proved
We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false. Alan Tonelson
chinese friendly government inveterate moment relations
The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa,
chinese companies hands help jail knowing quite trying weapon western
We have so many cyber-dissidents in jail that we are trying to get out of there, and knowing that some of them are in jail with the help of Western companies is really frustrating. It's one thing to want to make money, to make profits. It's quite another one to become a weapon in the hands of the Chinese authorities.
chinese combining developed ended forces forming friendship friends-or-friendship great hikes
We used to take these great hikes on the Great Wall, ... From our hikes, we developed a friendship that ended up with us combining forces in forming this new Chinese company. Jack Ma
chinese circle emerges game goes human mythology rarely
Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end. Ashwin Sanghi
chinese nine tone
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese. David Tang
chinese point taiwanese tend view
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint. Jimmy Wales
chinese shrimp torah
It specifically says in the Torah that you can eat shrimp and bacon in a Chinese restaurant. Jason Alexander
imitation acquire
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. Edmund Burke
imitation equal predecessors
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. Baltasar Gracian
imitation repetition observation
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. Denis Waitley
imitation rudeness strength weak
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength Eric Hoffer
imitation
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. Marcus Tullius Cicero
imitation envious
I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. Jeaniene Frost
imitation imitator
Most imitators attempt the inimitable. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
imitation memes term
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. Matt Ridley
imitation-of-life wells
Well, I'm going up and up and up--and nobody's going to pull me down! Lana Turner