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I'm not a price tag, I'm one-of-a-kind.
Author:
Firework - Katy Perry
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
Author:
John Zimmerman
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Author:
Xun Zi
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Author:
Andrew Young
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Author:
William Yeats
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Author:
Isoroku Yamamoto
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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Author:
George Washington
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Author:
Harold Warner
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Author:
David Wallace
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
Author:
Ralph Walker
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Author:
Voltaire
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.
Author:
James Vega
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So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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If you are a housewife, take pride in that.
Author:
Anthea Turner
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He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
Author:
Margaret Truman
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It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
Author:
Margaret Truman
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We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.
Author:
John Thorn
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
Author:
John Thorn
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In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
Author:
John Thorn
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Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
Author:
John Thompson
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
Author:
Cass Sunstein
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In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
Author:
Janet Street-Porter
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It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
Author:
Joseph Story
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
Author:
Thomas Smith
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
Author:
George Smith
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
Author:
William Sherman
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Author:
William Sherman
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Author:
Fulton Sheen
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My pride fell with my fortunes.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Author:
Giorgos Seferis
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Author:
George Santayana
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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Author:
Alain Sage
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Author:
John Ruskin
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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
Author:
Muriel Rukeyser
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
Author:
Murray Rothbard
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
Author:
Zhu Rongji
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Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum - one people out of many.
Author:
Mike Rogers
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
Author:
Bob Riley
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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Author:
Adrienne Rich
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From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
Author:
John Ratzenberger
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What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
Author:
Charley Pride
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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There is a pride in speaking this language.
Author:
Bernard Pivot
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Author:
Petrarch
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Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
Author:
Rick Perry
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Author:
William Penn
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Author:
Hesketh Pearson
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
Author:
Floyd Patterson
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
Author:
Alan Paton
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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
Author:
Dan O'Brien
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Author:
Barack Obama
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Author:
Barack Obama
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
Author:
Albert Nock
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Author:
Dave Mustaine
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We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Author:
Robert Mugabe
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One may be humble out of pride.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
Author:
Art Modell
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Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
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The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
Author:
George Minot
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I always took a great deal of pride in being original.
Author:
Roger Miller
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.
Author:
James McAvoy
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As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
Author:
Paul Martin
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What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
Author:
Billy Martin
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
Author:
James Madison
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Author:
Martin Luther
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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
Author:
Nancy Lopez
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
Author:
Nancy Lopez
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After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
Author:
Jay London
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
Author:
Robert Lifton
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By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
Author:
Susan Lieberman
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
Author:
C. Lewis
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He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
Author:
John Lennon
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Author:
Isidore Lautreamont
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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
Author:
John Lasseter
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Author:
Walter Lang
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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
Author:
Ray Kroc
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
Author:
Wayne Kramer
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Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
Author:
Boris Kodjoe
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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
Author:
John Kennedy
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If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
Author:
Paul Keating
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Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
Author:
Steve Kanaly
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Author:
Carl Jung
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I look upon pride as a sin.
Author:
Tommy Jones
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When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Author:
Hugh Jacobsen
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They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Author:
Michael Jackson
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I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Author:
Michael Jackson
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Author:
Helen Jackson
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They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
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I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Author:
Edward Irving
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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
Author:
Douglas Hurd
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In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
Author:
Robert Hunter
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Author:
Horace
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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Author:
J. Holland
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
Author:
Chris Hadfield
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One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
Author:
Jasmine Guy
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I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.
Author:
Richard Gough
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It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
Author:
Genevieve Gorder
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Author:
William Gilbert
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.
Author:
Maurice Gibb
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
Author:
Paul Getty
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So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.
Author:
Kevin Garnett
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Pride will spit in pride's face.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
Author:
Fred Friendly
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Author:
Ford Frick
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Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
Author:
Jeff Foxworthy
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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
Author:
John Foster
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The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
Author:
Mike Fitzpatrick
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
Author:
William Faulkner
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Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.
Author:
Lorrie Fair
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When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.
Author:
Jerry Doyle
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The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Author:
Ignatius Donnelly
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I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
Author:
Christopher Dodd
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Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Author:
Charlie Dent
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
Author:
W. Deming
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
Author:
Daniel Defoe
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I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
Author:
Tom Cruise
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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
Author:
Graham Coxon
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We take pride in what we do.
Author:
Coolio
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Author:
Charles Colton
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Author:
Adam Clarke
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As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
Author:
Roy Clark
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Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
Author:
John Clark
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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
Author:
John Chrysostom
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I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
Author:
Linford Christie
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Author:
Nicolas Chamfort
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I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.
Author:
Steve Case
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
Author:
Alexis Carrel
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
Author:
Kim Campbell
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Author:
Paul Bryant
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Author:
Paul Bryant
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If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
Author:
Herb Brooks
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Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
Author:
Arthur Brooks
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Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
Author:
Lou Brock
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The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
Author:
Leonard Boswell
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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Henry Bolingbroke
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Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
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Steve Blake
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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Gary Blair
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
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Josh Billings
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
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Theodore Bikel
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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.
Author:
Sandra Bernhard
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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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Claude Bernard
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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Georges Bernanos
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
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Jose Bergamin
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I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
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Julie Benz
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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Henry Beecher
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Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
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Elizabeth Barton
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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Hosea Ballou
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Abu Bakr
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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
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Joanna Baillie
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As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
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Joe Baca
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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Jane Austen
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Saint Augustine
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
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Johann Arndt
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All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
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Corazon Aquino
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The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
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Minna Antrim
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The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
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Mary Antin
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I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
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Francesca Annis
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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Dante Alighieri
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
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Sholom Aleichem
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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Aeschylus
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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Theodor Adorno
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
Author:
Gary Ackerman
