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- I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous… — Tom Bodett
- I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez
- This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably… — John Nelson Darby
- It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has… — Galen Strawson
- He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France
- Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions. — William James
- Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have… — Adolf Hitler
- The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God — Pope Francis
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive… — Henry David Thoreau
- What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the… — Elias Hicks
- The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.… — Ada Lovelace