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• Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

  Greg Peterson

  Mother, Nature, Jobs

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• The cost for the recipient of God’s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.

  Dan B. Allender

  People, Grace, Cost

  Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ceremony, Submit, Refuse

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

  Wendell Berry

  Mind, Vision, Desire

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Christian, War, Pride

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.126, Best Books on

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• I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Careers, Choices, Looks

  "12 Movie Stars Who Experienced Career Resurrections". www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  Iain Banks

  Legacy, Fiction, Fabric

  "Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers" by Iain M Banks, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

  Mario Balotelli

  Thinking, People

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• The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Arrogance, Reputation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

  Jeremy Irvine

  People, Giving, Advice

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• I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.

  Jo Nesbo

  Selfish, Fighting, Thinking

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• I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

  Andrew Sarris

  Compassion, Long, Narcissist

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

  Francis Chan

  Punishment, Clay, Redemption

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• "Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Insane, Esoteric, Pedantic

  Herbert M. Shelton (2015). “The Science and Fine Art of Fasting”, p.76, Ravenio Books

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• Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though we have tread upon the surface of the moon, we have remained bigots and arrogant egotists. Walk softly, for history repeats its self with little provacation.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Spiritual, Moon, Technology

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• If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Humble, World

  "Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq" by Jonathan Stein, Tim Dickinson, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2006.

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• But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Spiritual, Biblical

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.20, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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• Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's so much of the brain that we still don't use, and that's all I ever try to do - go to the next level

  Marilyn Manson

  Men, Thinking, Brain

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• The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A particularly striking idea of how things really were in Greece can be obtained from one feature of life - the sons who turned out badly.... the sons of gifted but arrogant fathers turned out merely arrogant, the grandsons hopeless; it is respect alone that sustains families and gives them traditions.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Father, Son, Ideas

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• Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know.

  Tom Cruise

  Stars, Believe, Creatures

  "Tom Cruise: We're not alone", www.cnn.com. June 29, 2005.

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• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, Answers, World

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually.

  Jeremy Shockey

  Two, Play, Sound

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• Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore he referred to 15 percent per annum as modest. It's not modest, it's arrogant.

  Charlie Munger

  Records, Economic, Economy

  "1997 Annual Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 5, 1997.

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