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  2. Mensch - Wikipedia

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    In Yiddish, mentsh roughly means "a good person". [4] The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, in the original German spelling, with a mensch being a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague. [5]

  3. 30 Small Ways To Tell If Someone Is A Truly Good Person ... - AOL

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    Image credits: Kaygarthedestroyer #27. Their default expectation is that people are generally good. I don't mean that they're naive, they're aware that some people are a*****s, that crime happens.

  4. Chutzpah - Wikipedia

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    Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - / ˈ x ʊ t s p ə, ˈ h ʊ t-/) [1] [2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes " hubris ". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh ( חֻצְפָּה ), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity".

  5. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Each article in an encyclopedia is about a person, a people, a concept, a place, an event, a thing, etc., whereas a dictionary entry is primarily about a word, an idiom, or a term and its meaning(s), usage and history. In some cases, a word or phrase itself may be an encyclopedic subject, such as Macedonia (terminology) or truthiness.

  6. Good citizenship - Wikipedia

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    Some students define good citizenship in terms of standing up for what one believes in. Joel Westheimer identifies the personally responsible citizen (who acts responsibly in his community, e.g. by donating blood), the participatory citizen (who is an active member of community organizations and/or improvement efforts) and the justice-oriented ...

  7. Good moral character - Wikipedia

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    Since the moral character of a person is an intrinsic psychological characteristic and cannot be measured directly, [9] some scholars and statutes have used the phrase "behaved as a person of good moral character". [10] People must have good moral character determined as a fact of law in predominately two contexts – (1) state-issued licensure ...

  8. Ethics - Wikipedia

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    According to Aristotle, how to lead a good life is one of the central questions of ethics. [1]Ethics, also called moral philosophy, is the study of moral phenomena. It is one of the main branches of philosophy and investigates the nature of morality and the principles that govern the moral evaluation of conduct, character traits, and institutions.

  9. Eponym - Wikipedia

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    The term eponym [2] [3] functions in multiple related ways, all based on an explicit relationship between two named things. Eponym may refer to a person – or, less commonly, [3] a place or thing – for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.