Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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• Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up,
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• Character is who you are in the dark. --
  Lord John...
• Character is what you are in the dark! --
  Lord John...
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
  John...
• You may know what you need but to get what you want you better see that you keep what you have.
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• An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but if you don't floss,
  the dentist will get you...
• Nothing is hard work if you have the ability to get
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• The ability to get to the verge of war without getting into war is the necessary art.
  If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into wars...
• Flattery will get you everywhere!
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