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• They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

  Anne Carson

  Eels, Two, Tanks

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self Esteem, Humility, Eye

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.47, Penguin

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• I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hands, Fists, Necks

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Poison Study”, p.306, MIRA

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• It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

  Voltaire

  Triumph, Reason, Folks

  Voltaire (2015). “Socrates”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

  Erik Satie

  Modesty, Notorious

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• Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Mind, Excellence

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• I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Children, Hate, Evil

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• If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Odds, Law

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.349, Random House

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• It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking About You, Knowing, People

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.331, Random House

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• Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

  Julian Barnes

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Self, Suffering

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

  Patrick Ness

  Numbers, Recipes, Unending

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• When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Self, People

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• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Self, Ethics

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• To teach vain Wits that Science little known,
  T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Doubt, Littles

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Criticism”

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• But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Color, Hopeful

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Evil, Drunk

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• One of the hardest things to live with in any relationship is criticism, real or implied. Criticism is a form of humor for them, and they enjoy feeling superior when they see someone else's discomfort.

  Robert E. Wells

  Real, Feelings, Criticism

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• A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Believe, Discipline

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

  Plotinus

  Faith, Wisdom, Infinite

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• By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

  Georg Simmel

  Average, Personality, Mysterious

  Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”

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• War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, War, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.236, Algora Publishing

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• The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

  Confucius

  Wise, Character, Men

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