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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

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Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics." ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. ↗

— Willard Scott

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One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book. ↗

— Phil Foglio

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It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being. ↗

— David Maraniss

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Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

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