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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.


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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.


Edward Young
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.


Heraclitus
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
John Strachan
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Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
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However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Charles Spurgeon
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
Rumi
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Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
Eliot Spitzer
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.


William Shakespeare
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Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
Paul Kalanithi
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I envy the dead.


William Mulholland
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It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.
Medgar Evers
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Envy is human nature.


Monica Bellucci
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I envy my daughter's childhood.


Rene Russo
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
Kenneth Grahame
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Samuel Pepys
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Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Thomas Ken
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I envy Jesus because he's dead.


T. C. Boyle
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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