"The taint of arrogance will I not know."
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"Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps."
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"Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness."
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"A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important."
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"someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God."
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"Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant."
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"[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck."
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"The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right."
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"Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -"
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"Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for."
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"Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility."
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"I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia."
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"Arrogance repels the Lord; humility attracts the Lord."
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"Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood."
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"Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use."
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"Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable."
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"To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom."
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"The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed."
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"For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness."
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"The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you."
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