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“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.”

Thinking Men World Persons Character Reading Results Cases Extremes Betrayal Betray Distrust Knowledge Of The World

Author:Joseph P. Farrell

“Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.”

Character Individual Natural Results Attitude Health Depends Healthy Degrees Capacity Illness Surrender Psychics Disturbance Climax Potency

Book:The Discovery of the Orgone

Source: The Discovery of the Orgone

“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.”

Kind Ends Reason Character Grows Results Originals Various Mask Our Society Protective End Results

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.”

Firsts Humans Character Results Opinion Records Currents Permanent Novelists Accurate Phases

Author:John Dos Passos

“Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.”

Soul Character Artist Results Knowing Creating Draws Depth Photograph Visible Mask Copies Portraits Portraiture

Author:Igor Babailov

“When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.”

Ifs Different Character Sides Goal Results Achieve Drama Conflict Stakes Both Sides Unyielding

Book:How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

“You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children see their parents treating them this way, they then recognize the parents' authority. It speaks louder than words. Their new respect for the parents is as good for them as it is for the parents. It never works to demand respect of children. It must be given willingly as a result of strength of good character in the parents, which is manifested by their non-reaction to stress in the children.”

People Way Looks Children Character Eye Speak Given Parent Results Demand Authority Stress Angry Reactions Back When Good Character

Author:Roy Masters

“When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.”

Knows May Character Courses Individual Energy Results Moral Know How Integrity Attractive Endeavor Cultivation Personal Integrity

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.”

Ifs Doe Said Character Turns Sex Results Behinds Identity Expression Consequence Gender Distinction Constructs Being There Gender Identity Sex And Gender

Author:Judith Butler

“From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.”

Mind Stills Character Courses Father Games Results Player Walking Shots Balls Mark Golf Opponents Score Flaws Preparing Courtesy Abiding Golf Course

Author:Arnold Palmer

“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?”

Men Mind Mean Important Character Seems Pleasure Results Opinion Study Greater Gains Valuable Guests Biographies Acquaintance Elevation

Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.”

Men Mind Doe Character Facts Law Given Results Principles Support Doubt Events Negative Intellect Affirmative Insufficiency Future Events

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?”

“Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.”

Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.”

Mind Ideas Character Results Movement Taste Intellectual Method Chaos Radical Uncertain Contradictory Hash

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.”

Way Character Culture Results Very Good Treated Popular Culture Burroughs

Author:Brendan Fraser

“The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.”

People Knows Want Real Character Hours Results Couple Exciting Filled Real Life

Author:Gene Siskel

“Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.”

Character Results Virtue Habit Permanent Establishment Virtuous Formation

Book:On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

Source: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man

“What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.”

Character Dream Nations Results Opinion Youth Speech Poetic Public Opinion Morrow Inarticulate

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.”

Thinking Way Feels Writing Character Results Reader

Author:Louis Sachar

“I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.”

Character Results Ready Prove

Author:Christopher Reeve

“A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.”

“Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.”

Men Way Children Persons Two Character Problem Leadership Results Greatness Prejudice Historical Fortune Solve Fancy Great Men Rhyme Disappoint Unprecedented Sequels Resemblance

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.”

Persons Whole Character Seems Action Individual Results Millions Environmental Contribution Who We Are Isolation Sustainability Insignificant Accumulation Cumulative Small Changes Small Actions

Author:Duane Elgin

“I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change. I think repression had a lot to do with the dismantling of the movement and also the winning of certain victories had something to do with the inability of the movement to take those victories as the launching point for new goals and developing new strategies.”

Thinking Knows Character Certain Winning Goal Results Movement Victory Institutions Strategy Developing Overwhelming Inability Repression Launching New Goal

Author:Angela Davis

“Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led to believe that our genes determine the character of our lives, yet new research surprisingly reveals that it is the character of our lives that controls our genes. Rather than being victims of our heredity, we are actually masters of our genome.”

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