Pretensions Quotes

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I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
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 been an easy… — Adolf Hitler
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our… — Elias Hicks
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow… — Ada Lovelace
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Robert Sutton Harrington
He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without… — Benjamin Smith
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be… — John Astin
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the… — George W. Bush
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. — William James
Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence,… — Rob Brezsny
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler
Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the… — Angela Carter
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and… — John Roberts
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change. — Amit Goswami

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