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• Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, School, Enemy

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• One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  Energy, Atoms, World

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• If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Music, Country, Passion

  Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson, United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) (1975). “The portable Thomas Jefferson”, Viking Adult

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• Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
  Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Years, Peaceful

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• Envy, slothful vice,
  Never makes its way in lofty characters,
  But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
  Close to the ground.

  Ovid

  Character, Vices, Way

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• I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
  Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
  Who plainly say, My God, My King.

  George Herbert

  Kings, Spring, Loss

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.52

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• It stirs up envy, fame does.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Doe, Fame

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!

  George Matthew Adams

  Hate, Expression, Knowing

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• I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

  Stephen Colbert

  Leadership, Work, Shoes

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• When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.

  Bindu

  Lying, Communication, Heart

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• Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
  Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
  And subdivide, and never come to death.

  Wilfred Owen

  Death, Men, Joy

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.65, New Directions Publishing

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• People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

  Emily Eden

  Jealousy, Real, Hard Work

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.8

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• Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.

  Adele Faber

  Brother, Children, Sibling

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• You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

  Anna Camp

  Compare

  Source: collider.com

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• How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Hate, Fall

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

  Lucretius

  Levels, Thunderbolts, Summit

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Husband, Children

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

  Garry Kasparov

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ill Will, World, Morality

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

  Samuel Johnson

  Toil, Want, Mark

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157

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• Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

  Ben Jonson

  Two, Honor, Bears

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.386

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• Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

  Euripides

  Want, Poverty, Menace

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Order, Honor, Insult

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• A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Revenge, Mistake, Men

  Mary Baker Eddy (1990). “Ciencia y salud: con clave de las escrituras”, Writings of Mary Baker Eddy

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• I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

  Jay McInerney

  Writing, Discovery, Process

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