October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 58m
English
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Guiding Constant 1: Be True to Character
The story of Gandhi and eating sugar: Craig Schindler and Gary Lapid, The Great Turning (Rochester, VT: Bear and Company, 1989), p. 121.
Helen Keller quote on character: John C. Maxwell, Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 205.
Polonius to Laertes: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3, in The Complete Works of Shakespeare 11–12 (Philadelphia: George Barrie and Sons, 1899), p. 166.
Jon M. Huntsman quote: Jon M. Huntsman, Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children (But May Have Forgotten) (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education/Prentice Hall, 2005), p. xii.
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