Pride Quotes
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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"
Sarah Silverman
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
Gertrude Atherton
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When you get to the bottom, you discover that there is no room for pride. That’s what I paint.
Bram van Velde
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I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.
Rod Stewart
