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• The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

  Keyshawn Johnson

  Swagger, Definitions, Opinion

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• There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

  Marcia Angell

  Powerful, Attitude, Mind

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• Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Children, Independent, Pride

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

  Sophocles

  Madness, Turns, Grows

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Baby, Echoes, Proud

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• Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

  Edmund Burke

  Pride, Men, Order

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.188

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• America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

  Alison Lurie

  Self, Land, America

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• When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.

  Claudius Aelianus

  Mean, Dresses, Magnificence

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• I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Doe

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• A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Religious, Memories, Thinking

  "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error". Book by Kathryn Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

  Samuel Smiles

  Growth, Quality, Opinion

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.407

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

  Jeremy Collier

  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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• I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.

  Rachel Carson

  Humility, Men, Space

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• Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Independent, Men

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.55, Penguin

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• Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

  Wole Soyinka

  Adventure, Pride, Giving

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Jul 22, 2016

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• Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance.
  There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

  Pete Townshend

  Age, Interest, Stills

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• Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Let It Go, Wealth, Prosperity

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.57, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.

  J. A. Jance

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Ideas, Two, Temptation

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• There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Desire, Sacred

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• General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Boys, Bad Boy, Arcs

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• ... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, People, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.415, Broadview Press

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• Science is a form of arrogance control.

  Carol Tavris

  Form

  Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson (2008). “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.100, Macmillan

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• As a wheelchair user, you cant move about freely. Thats the only thing that bothers me a little. When Im in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Moving, Want, Littles

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