"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."
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"It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority."
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"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
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"When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible."
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"The inferiority of women is man-made."
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"A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes."
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"Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex."
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"Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides."
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"Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it."
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"One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility."
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"Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it."
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"We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self...""
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"God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority."
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"I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one"
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"Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't."
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"The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack."
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"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."
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"And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky."
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"No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival."
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