"In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter."
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"France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character."
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"If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel."
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"It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living."
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"Only men of character are trusted."
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"What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job."
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"When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances."
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"Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies ."
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"All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it."
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"Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress."
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"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
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"Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel."
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"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
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"I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other."
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"I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal"
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"So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children."
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"That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story."
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"It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post."
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"The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
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