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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. Carlos Fuentes
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. C. S. Lewis
democracy courageous problem
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. Charles Edison
democracy easy disappear
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear. Brian Eno
democracy firsts germany
After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first. Brent Scowcroft
democracy election
Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. Brent Scowcroft
democracy knows ifs
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. David McCullough
democracy humans corporate
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. David Korten
democracy way communism
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy. David Korten
democracy unions leon
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! C. Wright Mills
democracy independence lebanese mean second
This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance. Elias Atallah
ridiculous amount refining
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it. David Pogue
ridiculous disposition lively
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous. Jane Austen
ridiculous life-is comprehension
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. Barbara Kingsolver
ridiculous tragic
Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once. Edward Abbey
ridiculous injury
I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous. Bear Grylls
ridiculous ridicule
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule. Lord Shaftesbury
ridiculous
I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think. Laura Bush
ridiculous sublime
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Napoleon Bonaparte
ridiculous building chairs
If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous. Donald Judd