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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine
Death
Communism
People
Envy
Language
Every
Possesses
Hunger
Understand
Which
Elements
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
Ignorance
People
Envy
Own
Gifts
Lack
Belief
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Tacitus
Good
Envy
Men
Everything
Bad
Whether
Full
Disparage
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang
Faith
Good
Loyalty
Hate
Envy
Crime
Will
Feelings
Sense
Way
Abandoned
Born
Gives
Lead
He
Him
Person
Any
Them
Good Faith
Violence
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
A. A. Milne
Entertainment
Welcome
Natural
Gift
Envy
Laughter
Clever
Setting
Those
Tribute
Must
Some
Powers
Greater
Limited
Arranging
Beds
Lot
Which
Anywhere
Us
Much
View
Whose
Applause
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
Pride
Envy
Men
Fire
Hearts
Avarice
Sparks
Set
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
Filippo Brunelleschi
God
Ignorance
Speak
Envy
Those
Gifts
Must
Relinquished
Given
Moved
Them
Us
Ill
Who
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Lord Byron
Wisdom
Fool
Envy
Doubting
No-One
Am
Least
His
Certainty
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Me
Respect
Equality
Envy
Passion
Master
Seems
No Respect
Merely
Accept
Which
Disparage
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Abraham Cahan
Wisdom
You
Heart
Fight
Envy
Every
Kind
Must
Above
Conceit
Your
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Vittorio De Sica
Envy
Moral
Cases
Indignation
Most
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People
Pride
Envy
Own
Think
Enough
Mark
Others
Considerable
Take
Conceited
Merit
May
Being
Unfortunate
Them
Themselves
Fortune
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
Charles Krauthammer
Me
People
Envy
Enjoy
Easily
Write
Process
Who
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
Today
Technology
Science
World
Immigration
Envy
Science And Technology
System
See
Generous
Developments
Economy
Massive
Policies
Because
American
American Economy
Funding
We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Best
Phones
People
Fear
Envy
Longing
Looking
Fickle
Our
Spend
Out
Self
Taken
Over
Missing
Hours
Know
Involved
Always
Becoming
Still
Up
Trying
May
Human
Buried
Social
Next
Connection
Even
Keep
Lives
Thing
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
William J. Clinton
Democracy
World
Envy
Own
Nothing
Our
Must
Only
Wrong
Renewal
Cured
America
Cannot
Engine
Right
In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
Amy Purdy
Work
Myself
Me
Gratitude
Work Hard
Competition
Strong
Better
Envy
Focus
Sense
Rather
More
Through
Looked
Forces
Always
Than
Snowboarding
Want
Which
Succeed
Lens
Really
Hard
Competitors
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
Envy
Fools
Past
Live
Carry
Only
In The Past
Present
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
Fruit
Envy
Worm
Fattest
Out
Runs
Never
Like
Fairest
Singles
Cunning
Flock
Deer
Envy is the central fact of American life.
Gore Vidal
Life
Envy
Fact
American
Central
American Life
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
Joseph Hall
Myself
Me
Envy
Care
Long
Enjoy
Others
Pity
Either
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Karl A. Menninger
Envy
Wish
Criminals
Secretly
Punish
Ourselves
Identify
Forbidden
Us
Illegal
Things
Need
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
Blame
People
Envy
Everything
Drink
Know
Least
Who
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
P. T. Barnum
Music
Art
Business
Dignity
Envy
Monkey
World-Wide
Drama
Gifted
Highest
Princes
Well
Exhibition
Fame
Grades
Artists
Which
Might
Show
Show Business
Exposition
Phases
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
Nature
People
Envy
Fly
Free
Birds
Kind
Wings
Mobility
Where
Want
Many
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.
Rose Kennedy
God
Family
You
Son
Sometimes
Envy
President
About
Something
Son-In-Law
Had
Invites
Perhaps
Know
Permit
Ambassador
Wonder
Senators
Which
Ask
Much
Violence
Two
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