We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel sorry for these poor children, knowing that we could have made a difference in their lives.
We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel sorry for these poor children, knowing that we could have made a difference in their lives.
It is an infectious disease, and we must all be on our guard against intolerance, bigotry and the pretension of invidious distinction.
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
Be thorough in all you do and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
The world is his who can see through its pretension.
Pretension - The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
It's the revival of color, movement, liberty. It's fashion with less intellectual pretension. It's very down-to-earth and not at all up-to-the-moon.
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
How dwarfed against his manliness She sees the poor pretension, The wants, the aims, the follies, born Of fashion and convention.
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.
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