We teach our children that these are qualities ingrained into our national character as Americans.
Such results buttress the centennial commission's aim of not only remembering events, but actually influencing the national character.
Events are not the cause, events are the effect of our national character.
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The question is whether hosting a wonderful games can alter our national character.
The importance of preserving our traditional national character is the prerequisite, if you will, even to providing for our defense.
Suddenly, Australia is putting its national character under scrutiny, in search of the flaw that may have precipitated this collapse.
An economy until recently dependent on peasant farming in harsh latitudes has shaped a stoic national character and an appetite for self-improvement.
Regardless of any anti-democratic traits in Russian national character, people are just tired of being ruled by the same guy for 12 years.
Now, the collapse of that dream is placing Australia's national character under scrutiny, in search of a flaw that may explain this demise.
Equally, a portrait of Britain that hopes to discover national character in London buses, Marmite soldiers and faded celebrities risks being glib and shallow.
Actually, I think passion - intensity of feeling, action and expression - has always been an essential part of the national character on this island.
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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Aussies and Americans like you have stood together since World War I, the war in which so much of your national character was born -- your incredible ANZAC Spirit.
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It says at least as much about the American national character as "The Glass Menagerie" or "Our Town, " and deserves to be seen at least as often as those two classics especially when it's done like this.
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Psychologically, the reforms have changed what seemed to be a defining feature of Australians' national character: the happy-go-lucky belief that, though their country more than others might be a victim of external events, something would always turn up.
It should similarly revisit its refusal to openly support the right of non-Islamic states like Israel, Serbia and even France, to assert their rights to defend their sovereignty, national security and national character from outside-sponsored domestic Islamic subversion.
So let me tell you: if those statistics don't make you feel angry or ashamed or sad as an American, then at the very least they should make you scared because, beyond the disappointing things those numbers say about our national character and values, they put our future in peril.
Or do we do damage to our national reputation and character as we did in the decade past with the contra-constitutional provisions of the Patriot Act or our actions at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo?
One of Italy's most distinguished sociologists, Professor Franco Ferrarotti, of Rome University, believes the character was reflective of national Italian traits.
But for the first time in the race, virtually every indicator national and state polls, judgments of character and issues have been moving towards Mr Bush.
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That it became an issue of national debate and cause for national shame is entirely due to the impeccable character of Stephen and the dogged determination of his parents, Doreen and Neville Lawrence, that justice should be done.
Even if you believe he is a prima donna actor on the national political stage, he stays in the same character.
We need just national reform that values the contributions immigrants make to the character, prosperity, and humanity of the United States.
And on September 11 we learned that in the modern interdependent world national interest cannot be narrowly defined, that the internal character of even the most remote regime can be a life-and-death matter to Americans.
"I first heard about this role from Mark while watching the Diamond Jubilee flotilla from the roof of the National Theatre, " said Bradley, who played the character of Solomon in 2012 episode Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.
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"We wanted to challenge the Jewish character of the state, not to hide our national identity, " he says.
You apparently want it badly enough to launch a lawsuit that casts skeptical national attention on your professionalism and the content of your personal character, but not enough to simply suck it up and do the class over again.
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The national team's new head coach is renowned as a vibrant, positive character, who is happy to talk all things cricket with likeminded enthusiasts.
If Senator Lieberman will, himself, be more accurate about its wellsprings and character, he will make an even more vital contribution to our national security and public safety.
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The story begins in 1994, when the Malaysian press revealed that then Malacca chief minister Rahim Tamby Chik apparently had been led astray by a 15-year-old schoolgirl. (The accused's rivals in the dominant national party UMNO leaked the tawdry details.) Rahim was subjected to a vicious character assassination by a wide spectrum of society, including his party colleagues and the government-controlled media.
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