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Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for ...

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Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics 2) constitutional means 3) ...

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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

He was not of an age but for all time.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are...

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Bertolt BrechtFear and Misery of the Third Reich

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

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It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he we...

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Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler."Kelsier: Ah, but being a...

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I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is de...

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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...

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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inheren...

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An artist is a person first.

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Chaim PotokMy Name Is Asher Lev

She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed ...

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the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

He is a good and a great man; but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, ...

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Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...

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In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly ...

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I've always had a big personality. I was trickier as a kid. I behaved erratically instead of consist...

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I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denia...

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Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulne...

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It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude ...

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Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so ove...

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Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a stud...

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Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a c...

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I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and t...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it...

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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...

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Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of anoth...

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My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I've thought about that often since. I mean, about the word nice. Perhaps I mean good. Of course the...

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Ella finds this story inside herself: A woman, loved by a man who criticizes her throughout their lo...

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Personality is a slot machine, and the cherries, lemons, and bells are your SSRI system, your schizo...

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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; he...

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But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g...

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It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsa...

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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she reall...

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Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running ar...

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If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into...

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Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed know...

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courag...

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I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven...

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

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Personality is a physical matter almost entirely; it lowers the people it acts on - I've seen it van...

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The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real lif...

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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analys...

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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but...

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We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If ...

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One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frigh...

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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a...

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Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of m...

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Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written pa...

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A century is about events. A decade is about people.

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. Wh...

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Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of ...

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Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of t...

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a...

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Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you o...

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It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagi...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people ha...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you...

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You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience...

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Hermann HesseSoul of the Age: Selected Letters

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...

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Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. ...

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He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Captain West advanced to meet me, and before our outstretched hands touched, before his face broke f...

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Jack LondonThe Mutiny of the Elsinore

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to ...

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opp...

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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of ...

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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do jus...

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