Pride hath no other glass To show itself, but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
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Problem is there are too many sissies and prima donnas -- stop talking and get it done.
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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
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This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
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Arrogance diminishes wisdom
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities
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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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.. The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
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In the process of trial and error, <br/>Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility.
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People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
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For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance.
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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves
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