"You've got to play with pride and guts."
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"I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants."
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"One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude."
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"It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last."
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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."
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"But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in Europe. They sought liberty and opportunity; and their strong sense of purpose has over two centuries, helped create a new unity and pride in being American."
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"Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others."
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"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . ."
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"Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees."
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"I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world."
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"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
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"I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
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"I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?"
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"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance."
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"What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history."
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"And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride."
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"It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects."
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"Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided."
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"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
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"The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began."
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