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“Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.”

Way Character Certain Challenges Virtue Events Habit Mark Vices Disposition Profile Bad Habits Good Habits

Author:Thomas Lickona

“I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.”

Play Culture Generations Fashion Events Keys Shapes Mark Pops Remembered Trends Pop Culture Present Life

Author:Connor Franta

“Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.”

Knows Years Looks Heart Littles Past Night Christ Realizing Born Progress Plans Journey Events Design Holy Mark Silent Christmas Certainty Celebration December Holy Night

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.”

Humans Important Joy Effects Events Products Industry Disease Draws Mark Train Prosperity Human Life Commerce Agriculture Harvest Insects Parasites Deranged

Author:Elias Hasket Derby

“There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.”

Men Light Earth Law Certain Courses Destiny Influence Events Strange Ordinary Seasons Mark Guides Comets Erratic Portents

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.”

Hands Time Hours Minutes Events Mark Great Events Small Events

Author:Andrew Michael Ramsay

“Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.”

“The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.”

Mind Age Events Sight Mark Brilliant Peculiar Flash Prophecy Statesmen Legislators Prophetic Statesmanship Anon Future Events

Book:Papers

Source: Papers

“My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.”

Ifs Character Past Fiction Careers Novel Events Materials Mark Historical Sheer Remembrance Historical Novels Ballast

Book:The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.”

Perfect Rocks Fronts Events Mass Mark Cameras Photograph Insight Treasure Eras Rock N Roll Lenses Captured Camera Lenses Time Capsules

Author:Phil Collen

“Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.”

Men Way Dream Happens Failing Events Divine Judgment Mark Delight Vanity Superstitions Fulfilled Astrology Omen

Book:The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature

“I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.”

Book Stories Found Events Mark Originals Adapted Guessing Personal Stories

Author:Max Lucado