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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King 1929-68: speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 August 1963

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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde

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I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Arthur Eddington 1882-1944: Stars and Atoms (1928)

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Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-89

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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."

Buddha

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"The goal of yesterday will be our starting point tomorrow."

-Henry Carey

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"Yes Madame, I am drunk but you are ugly and tomorrow I'll be sober."

Winston Churchill

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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray