We've undertaken space travel because the desire to explore and understand is part of our character.
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Our character, toughness and the resiliency of our guys is maybe unlike any team I've ever been around.
The rugged grandeur of the American landscape has helped shape our character and our soul as a Nation.
"It's just doing stupid things out of our character that we have to cut out at the moment, " he said.
Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character.
But how do those positions, our character, hold up when confronted in the real world, with real people in real situations?
What defines our character is how we react to those undeserved setbacks.
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We have the choice to learn from our trials, allowing them to refine our character and help us become a stronger, more charitable person.
The one thing I told them is we got to this point because of our leadership and our character and the guys we had in this room.
And we've got to tap into the basic character of this country, because our character has not changed even though we've gone through some tough times these last few years.
While the new age of quantum information will augment our minds and bodies, possibly beyond recognition, the quality and content of our character will, for better or worse, remain our own.
The sensitivity was so high that we couldn't keep our character from bouncing all around and losing all his coins, but our opponent managed his character fairly well, so perhaps we just don't got game.
In life, habits shape our character.
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What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
We rarely mention our core character traits, or even hint at our true personalities.
We teach our children that these are qualities ingrained into our national character as Americans.
An essential spirit of rugged individualism forged foundations of our American character and institutions.
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Events are not the cause, events are the effect of our national character.
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For 220 years, these fundamental liberties have shaped our national character and stirred the souls of all who dream of a freer, more just world.
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The truest Americans, Day-Lewis seems to be telling us, are those who can never be fully at home in the world: Our collective character is a restless one.
On occasion the system seemed to pick up our random Wiimote stylings and reflect them in our onscreen character when the ball wasn't on his side of the court, but when it comes to hitting the tennis ball the game is just picking up predefined strokes.
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In our attitudes and our actions we are determining the character of our country.
And with what is at stake in our upcoming elections, prioritizing the character of our candidates should be as significant as assessing their positions and policies.
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The importance of preserving our traditional national character is the prerequisite, if you will, even to providing for our defense.
And so we must act - and lead - with confidence in our ideals and an abiding faith in the character of our people, who sent us all here today.
And from this weathering we get our height and depth, our texture and dimensions, our facets of character and being.
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