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"Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
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"Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort."
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"Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow."
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"Your personal integrity, defined as being honest and having strong moral principles, communicates whether (or not) you can be trusted."
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"Failures make character, not success."
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"Words let you know what is in someone's mind, deeds let you know what is in someone's heart, and character lets you know what is in someone's soul."
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"The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters!"
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"Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
Character
"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
Family
"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
Death
"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
Time
"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
Education
"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."
Poetry
"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
Challenge
"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
Dream
"Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am."
Love
"Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest."
Poetry
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