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• Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

  Cornel West

  Summer, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Cornel West INTERVIEW: Don’t Appoint Larry Summers As An Economic Adviser And Tell Me You’re Progressive". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2009.

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• In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

  Evgeny Morozov

  Philosophy, Evil, Motto

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• There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.

  Steven Morrissey

  Royal, Blame, Shame

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• Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Technology

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• The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Math, Science, Bishops

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• We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Animal, Unique

  Gary Paulsen (2003). “Brian's Hunt”, p.65, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

  Beryl Markham

  Greatness, Men, Finches

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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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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• People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and everyone tells you you're very dramatic, very intense, and they see it as an affectation, but it´s actually just how you think. It really seems to you that the sky will fall if you are not personally holding it up. On the one hand, this is sheer arrogance; on the other hand, this is a very real fear. And it isn't that you ignore the potential repercussions of your actions. You don't think there are any. Because you are not even there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• ...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Mean, Air

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Mistake, Struggle, Two

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.2, Jester House Publishing

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• You don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all.” – Choo Co La Tah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kings, Talking, Numbers

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• If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Issues, Males, Feminine

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• It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

  Neal Shusterman

  Bully, Doe, Lines

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

  Rachel Caine

  Ifs, Superiors

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Undone: Outcast Season, Book One”, p.13, Penguin

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• Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Police, Facts

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

  Tamora Pierce

  Shoes, Barefoot, Ifs

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.151, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Pride

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 29, 2011

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• At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sexy, Witty, Cocky

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.

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• Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Flaws, Mines

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• Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Modesty, Stealth

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• Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

  Gail Carriger

  Jobs, Description, Alphas

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• It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Diversity, Culture, Reason

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