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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

— Stendhal
(Marie-Henri Beyle is better known by his pen name Stendhal)

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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

– Oscar Wilde

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

— Oscar Levant

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	Sound Familiar?

Aristotle wrote: “The virtues arise in us neither by nature nor against nature, but we are by nature able to acquire them, and reach our complete perfection through habit.” Acquiring virtues is how character develops. Only when one develops the knowing habit of right action, does one become good. One learns, one does, and one becomes. Habit eventually forms the person one has educated oneself to become.

— Lt. Col. Peter Fromm, U.S. Army, Retired; Lt. Col. Douglas Pryer, U.S. Army; and Lt. Col. Kevin Cutright, U.S. Army
From their article: “The Myths We Soldiers Tell Ourselves (and the Harm These Myths Do)“

Found at: http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/ English/MilitaryReview_20131031_art010.pdf

Originally found via one of the blogs I follow: http://carryingthegun.wordpress.com/

The specific post is: http://carryingthegun.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/ the-ethics-of-the-marine-corps-urination-case/

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