1. "Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character."
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Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
2. "We want recognition, not accomplishment."
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Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
3. "The Roman character had a strong streak of snobbery: effectively, citizens preferred to vote for families with strong brand recognition, electing son after father after grandfather to the great magistracies of state, indulging the nobility’s dynastic pretensions with a numbing regularity."
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Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
4. "Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility."
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Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides
5. "Freedom is the recognition of contingency."
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Quote by Richard M. Rorty
6. "His private character was his public character."
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Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
7. "Character is plot, plot is character."
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Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. "Character is fate."
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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
9. "Action is Character."
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Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. "Trifles show character"
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Louisa May Alcott, Little Women