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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, Literature, World

"Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 66, 1790.

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Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

Joseph Bruchac

Fate, Events, Shapes

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

Love, Life, Peace

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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

Strength, Peace, Strong

Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

John Green

World, Humans

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.174, Penguin

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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memories, Mindfulness, Homecoming

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I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

Richard Gere

Christian, Religious, Thinking

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Self esteem is built from the inside out and that is my inspiring message to all people.

Gretchen Carlson

Self Esteem, People, Messages

"'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

Isaac Marion

Sports, Party, Home

Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life and what we wish to do with our lives. Speaking each other's primary love language creates the emotional climate where these beliefs can be fleshed out in daily life.

Gary Chapman

Commitment, Emotional, Wish

Gary D Chapman (2009). “The Five Love Languages Singles Edition”, p.159, Moody Publishers

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Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Sadness, Soul, Bees

Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

Ally Carter

Girl, Son, Land

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Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.

Arthur Koestler

Country, School, Ignorance

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It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

Dan Wells

Winning, Order, Play

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Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

Gayle Forman

Purpose, Persons, Ifs

Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.168, Penguin

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I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.

Shane Koyczan

Beautiful, Heart, Mirrors

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I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.

Mikhail Lermontov

Christian, Blood, Enemy

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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

Ruth Ozeki

New York, Drama, Struggle

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Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Maya Banks

Crush, Obsessive, Consuming

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..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

Elizabeth Scott

Fall, Heart, Wind

Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

Ellen Hopkins

Wall, Heart, Perfect

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And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

Sarah Dessen

Mother, June, Hands

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

Sonia Sotomayor

Years, Guarantees, Life Experience

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stars, Wreckage, World

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche”, p.323, Bloomsbury Publishing

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