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I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. Aleksandar Hemon

Me Kind Some Someone Superiority Writer Implies Calls Inherent Novel Novelist Resist

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. Alexander Smith

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. Arthur Erickson

History Man Sense Distinguished Thread Superiority Civilization Outward Course Command His Western Western Civilization Preoccupation

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness. Daniel Lubetzky

Kindness Best Strength Be True Believe Society Too Others Sign Recognize Weakness Something Superiority Knew True Failing Over Greatest Exerting Opposite Led Dominance Often While Show Dad Portrayed

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope. Daveed Diggs

Dope Everybody Complex Bay Superiority Because

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. David Mamet

Myself Political Liberal Back Logically Some Superiority Could Look Sort Another Exercise Political Beliefs Wonder Rewarding Describe Beliefs

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. Ezra Stiles

Nature Natural Society Seem Superiority Higher Arises Another Branch Dictates Being Interest Interested Then Should Whose Universal

The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one. Fabrizio Moreira

Time Great Plants Long Setting Humming Peer Plentiful Jobs Kind Phrase Some Restore Superiority Economic Previous Factories Since Implies Mission Make Without Passed Were Very America American Where Wanted Anyone Again Manufacturing Who Default

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. George Henry Lewes

Mind Superiority Thus Over Another Depends Experiences Which Organised

My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company. Geraldine McCaughrean

Age Book Sister Older Other Typed Out Brother Seemed Someone Superiority Adored Had Shared Himself Safer Always Bed Were Years Effortless Anxious Six Children Double Show Company Each Keep Whom Illustrated Shy

The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability. Helen Fisher

Women Natural Words Speak Internet Girl Lose Tool Complex Ability Superiority More Never Verbal Boy Than Grammatical Which Little Sentences Little Girls Use Lets

That the Hawkings were eccentric, even odd, was well known. That they were aloof, convinced of their own intellectual superiority over the rest of the human race, was also widely recognized in St. Albans, where they were regarded with a suspicion and awe. Jane Hawking

Rest Own Recognized Eccentric Superiority Over Aloof Also Well Well Known Known Odd Were Intellectual Human Suspicion Where Regarded Race Convinced Human Race Even Awe Widely

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority. Josh Gondelman

Me First Big Sense Gave Superiority False False Sense Intellectual

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers. Kelly Miller

Army Enemy Giving Our Corps Guns Superiority Generous Over French Were Artillery Confident Personnel Us Start Assistance

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. Martin Jacques

Wisdom First Past Closed Sense Think Our Minds Ourselves Entertained Superiority Mentality Could Never Idea Open-Minded Surpass West Ascendancy China Centuries Then Bred Europe Two

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. Mary Douglas

Destructive Moral Superiority

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. Moses Mendelssohn

Own Profit Others Everything Must Folly Superiority He Principal Proved His Process Much Theory Disproved Axiom

Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa. Pankaj Mishra

Made Feeling Sense Consistently Seems Superiority Leaders Since Particular Underestimate American Intensity Nationalist Africa Little Asia

The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism. Paul Keating

War Racism World First Virtue Complex Destinies Superiority Quagmire Devoid First World First World War Cultural Any Notions European World War

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