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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."

"Allow your daily small acts of kindness to degenerate into a lifetime of human excellence."

"He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to."

"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."

"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
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"We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong."

"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester."

"In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on."

"I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him."

"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."
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