"Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character."
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"Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children."
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"Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts."
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"Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company."
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"Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence."
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"Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape."
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"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."
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"I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine."
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"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."
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"It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy."
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"I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all along. My impression is that The Flash is a show about a boy's journey into manhood. For the Flash character, there is a variety of male models presented to him, and Captain Cold is one of them."
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"The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?"
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"One man in his time plays many parts."
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"The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities."
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"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords."
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"People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong."
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"Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character."
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"Self-command is the main elegance."
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