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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.


Mary Douglas
I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
Michael Caine
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.


Ashley Montagu
Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.
Ali Babacan
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Willa Cather
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Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
Andy Warhol
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.


Maya Angelou
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Henry Rollins
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To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
Sophie Kinsella
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
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We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.


Francis Parkman
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.


Ewan McGregor
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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.


Ruth Ozeki
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Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Robert Fulghum
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I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.
Thomas McGuane
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
Gary Oldman
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.
John Henrik Clarke
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
Saint Basil
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn
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