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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
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At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
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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.
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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
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
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Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
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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
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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
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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.
weapons sometimes wounds
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes. Cher
weapons way world
The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. Calista Flockhart
weapons
We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it. Paul Davis
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Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about? Howard Dean
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Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit Earl Butz
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The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. Arthur C. Clarke
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If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal. Orson Scott Card
weapons human-nature realizing
When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature. Dianne Feinstein
weapons needs construction
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves. Walter Benjamin
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The reality is much like you've heard about the Jordan River. There are some not-so-good things in that water that could be potentially dangerous to our divers. Dan Smith
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The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys - white guys - are a small minority and they're just trying to survive. Dean Steward
dangerous federal guys minority reality small trying violent white
The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places, and all of these guys -- white guys -- are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.
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The real danger is that the employers market erodes fast.
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Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies. Tom Guiry
dangerous mistake
We know how dangerous he is. And we don't want to make a mistake and find out. Bruce Bochy
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Ultimately, voters are going to decide a small-town physician from a small and atypical state is probably not qualified to lead this nation in a dangerous world. Jim Jordan
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Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger is terrifying.
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The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback. Charles Kennedy