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Letter "O" » out of character
«Success builds character, failure reveals it»
Author: Dave Checkett
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
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«You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.»
Author: James D. Miles
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
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«A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Nor is it out of character that Chicago's grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump.»
Author: Pat Colander
| Keywords:
arc, arcs, beaches, dump, grandest, lake, lakefront, Lake Michigan, manmade, Michigan, out of character
«People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
also, character, confession, Confessions, in character, opinion, out of character, realize, seem, their, The Confession
«You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
character, Did, forgive, gave, greatness, him, in character, never, opportunity, out of character, seize, seize on, seizing, showing
«Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.»
«Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
beautifully, out of character, out of place, stupid person
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