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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Pride

"But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them."

Children Teacher Pride
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
Pride

"Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow."

Hair Pride Snow
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Barack Obama Politician
Pride

"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."

Thinking Inspirational Pride
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Barack Obama Politician
Pride

"Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans learned that the United States had carried out an operation that resulted in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. I think we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for. And what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics."

Running Party Pride
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Paul Martin Politician
Pride

"Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service."

Country Pride Our Veterans
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Pindar Poet
Pride

"Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind."

Pride Humility Humble
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Pride

"There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought."

Pride
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
Pride

"For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm."

Spiritual Pride Erosion
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Pride

"The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness."

Needs Pride Grace
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Pride

"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

Home Pride Regret
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Daniel Keys Moran Author, Screenwriter
Pride

"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it."

Couple Gay Pride
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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
Pride

"Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly."

Government Pride Friendship
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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
Pride

"Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."

Desire Pride Pieces
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