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• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.

  Cesar Chavez

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• Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

  Thornton Wilder

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• Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

  Thomas Merton

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  Tags in Humility, Artificial, Pride, Real, Philosophy

• Pride will spit in pride’s face.

  Thomas Fuller

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• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  Thomas Fuller

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  Tags in Humility, Pride, Often

• If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  Khalil Gibran

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• Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

  Jules Renard

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• We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder… We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

  Robert Mugabe

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  Tags in Top, Actually, Pride, Feel, Really

• There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

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• Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

  Vanna Bonta

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• Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.

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• A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

  Jean de La Bruyere

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  Tags in Vanity, Stupidity, Pride, Ignorance

• I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

  Muriel Rukeyser

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  Tags in Pride, Mystery, Women

• They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

  Michael Jackson

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• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

  John Ruskin

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• As soon as there was two there was pride.

  John Donne

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• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  Mark Twain

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• It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief.

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

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  Tags in Vanity, Pride