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Tag Name "Pretension" (104)

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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Mary Douglas
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
Hosea Ballou
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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pretension is nothing power is everything.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
Roger L'Estrange
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Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.
Samuel Johnson
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Samuel Johnson
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I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
Theophrastus
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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
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
John Roberts
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
Victor Hugo
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Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.
Ken Macrorie
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On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.
Walter Brueggemann
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When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it's completely out of control!
Luis Gonzalez
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Be thorough in all you do and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
William E. Gladstone
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
William Hazlitt
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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
William James
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
Norm MacDonald
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith
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Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.
Pope Francis
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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