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When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
Said Nursi
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
Rick Perry
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Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
Eminem
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Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.
Joe Dempsie
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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.


Peter Marshall
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.


Octavio Paz
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My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.
Adam Driver
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch
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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.


Thomas Sydenham
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.


Jim Barksdale
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.


Alexander Pope
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Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
Sonia Sotomayor
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
Rita Coolidge
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My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.
John Caudwell
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Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!
Richard Trumka
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I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.


Lily Donaldson
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When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
Tibor Fischer
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
John Milton
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