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• This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Pride, Power

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• I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Blessed, Rights

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• If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Bows, Ifs

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• The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.

  Israel Shenker

  People, Choices, Challenges

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

  Bob Herbert

  Power, Mixtures, Incompetence

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• I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.

  Julia Cameron

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.19, Penguin

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  The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Family

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• In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the servility of the weak, low rapacity, ephemeral pleasure purchased by great effort, death preceded by long suffering, all belong to the animals as they do to men.

  Georges Cuvier

  Death, Strong, Science

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• To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

  Antony Beevor

  Mother, Jobs, Writing

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• I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

  Steve Madden

  Stupidity, Greed, Guilty

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• Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Color, Heaven, Four

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• There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

  Wesley Snipes

  Games, Hollywood, Type

  "The Daywalker speaks: Wesley Snipes interview". IGN interview, www.ign.com. August 11, 2011.

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• I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

  Francesca Annis

  Arrogance Of Youth, People, Said

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• In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

  Dirk Benedict

  Numbers, Losing, Accepting

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• It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

  Tom DeLay

  Men, Thinking, Volcanoes

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• Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Opposites, Imagination, Hypocrisy

  "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom" by Gill Farrer Halls, (p. 162), 2000.

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• America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

  Garry Trudeau

  Country, America, Arrogant

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• I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

  Rafael Nadal

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Humility, Mind

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• The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Essence, Sin

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• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

  James A. Baldwin

  Spiritual, Atheism, Christianity

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind" by James A. Baldwin in "The New Yorker" (November 17, 1962), republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in James A. Baldwin "The Fire Next Time", 1963.

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• You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !

  Chris Rock

  War, Rapper, Usa

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• With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.

  Richard III of England

  Character, Heart, Kissing

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• All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Practice, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson...”, p.178

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