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• I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

  Tom Bodett

  Common, Broadcasting, Form

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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• All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

  Maxim Gorky

  Soul, Want, Littles

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• One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

  Samuel Foote

  Ignorance, Exterior, Preserves

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• I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

  Miuccia Prada

  Children, Husband, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Discouraging, Raises, Assurance

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• For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Sincere

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.77

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• You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Worthy, Please

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.323

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• Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

  Malcolm X

  Car, Dining, Massachusetts

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• For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

  Erich Fromm

  Simple, People, Lovers

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

  Chris Ware

  Art, World, Transformation

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• It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Differences, Today, Moral

  "A Conversation with Friedrich A. Von Hayek: Science and Socialism". Talk at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1979.

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• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Lying, Equality, Hype

  "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.

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• It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

  Arianna Huffington

  Attitude, Skills, Would Be

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• Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.

  James MacArthur

  Believe, Taken, Good Luck

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• If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

  Billy Sunday

  Good Man, Hell, Preacher

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• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

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• The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Higher, Pretence

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• Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Trying, May

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• The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Love Life, Simple, Greatness

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• Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Nature, Borrowed, Has Beens

  "Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims". Anonymous author, p. 234, 1831.

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• We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

  Guy Laliberte

  Nice, Believe, Garden

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• In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Faith, Desire, Economics

  The New York Times Magazine, June 07, 1970.

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• To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

  William James

  Giving Up, Blessed, Deception

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• American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Achievement, Journalism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.95, Knopf

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• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Feelings, Myth

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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