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"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization." »Sylvia Levi
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"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable." »Robert Cecil
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"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion." »Democritus
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"Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself." »Johnson
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." »Indira Gandhi
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." »C. C. Colton
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"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." »Mark Twain
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"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub." »Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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"The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there." »Anonymous
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"Pride the first peer and president of hell." »Daniel Defoe
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"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
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"Pride sullies the noblest character." »Claudianus
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"We rise in glory as we sink in pride." »Young
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard
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"Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages." »Johnson
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"By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least." »Gay
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"Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad." »Brad Moore
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"There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so." »C. C. Colton
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"Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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"I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value." »John Waters
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"I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here." »Wil Wheaton
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man." »Alighieri Dante
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"Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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