“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.” ~Elmer G. Letterman

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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” ~Herm Albright

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“A man’s character is his fate.” ~Heraclitus

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“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” ~Plato

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“First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.” ~Kristin Hunter

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“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ~Michael J. Fox in “Saving Milly” by Morton Kondrake

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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~Carl Jung

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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” ~Dale Carnegie

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“Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” ~Elbert Hubbard

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“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?” ~Scott Adams

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“Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.” ~Unknown

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“Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that’s not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ’s likeness.” ~Rick Warren

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“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.” ~Stanislaw Lem

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“Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.” ~D.H. Lawrence