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• We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature.

  Paul V. Johnson

  Helping, Divine, Be Careful

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• I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Want

  "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams", www.nbcnews.com. September 17, 2007.

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• I do like Christmas. I do understand that there are people who hate it, and there are other religions that resent it. So, I speak to everybody - I try to speak to every kind of minority and majority that cannot escape the steamroller known as Christmas.

  John Waters

  Hate, People, Trying

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• I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special expertise. After all, all people - not just philosophers - have attitudes and points of view on various philosophical questions, and they rather resent being told that there are professionals who can think about these things better.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Attitude, Philosophical, Insecure

  "Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

  Jack Kirby

  People, Trying, Benefits

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, Trying, Should

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• What your mind cannot master it will eventually resent.

  Mike Murdock

  Mind, Masters

  Mike Murdock (2012). “Wisdom For Winning”, p.225, Wisdom International Inc

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• One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.

  Mary B. Harris

  Opportunity, Views, Grace

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ridiculous, Injury, Jest

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• Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Taken, Past

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 15-17, 1917.

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• Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

  Mason Cooley

  Burden

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• Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Buddhist, Philosopher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.270

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• Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

  Lucan

  Greatness, Men, Partners

  Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”

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• Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, Average, Talking

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• If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us.

  George W. Bush

  Arrogant, Nations, Ifs

  Presidential Debate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 11, 2000.

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• If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Humble, Arrogant

  "Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq" by Jonathan Stein, Tim Dickinson, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2006.

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• I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

  Bruce Babbitt

  People, Century, Born

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• Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

  Denis Boyles

  Stupid, Hate, Thinking

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• Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.

  T. Harv Eker

  Successful, People, Rich

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• The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Resent You, World, Want

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• Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is no feeling of brotherhood among these people. Indeed, they always resent it when I call them brother. To show how far their ungenerosity can carry them, I will state that I offered to let Prof. H--y publish my great theory as his own discovery; I even begged him to do it; I even proposed to print it myself as his theory. Instead of thanking me, he said that if I tried to fasten that theory on him he would sue me for slander.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Kindness, Discovery

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• To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

  J. B. Priestley

  Forgive And Forget, Forgiving, Remember

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• Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?

  C. Sommerville

  Children, War, Years

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• The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.

  Paul Theroux

  Order, Class, People

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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