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“Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.”

Feels Ability Pride Demand Shame

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.”

Ability Pride Self Confidence Sanity Hallmark

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.”

Thinking Way Ideas Running Courses Loses Ability Pride Findings Tools Combination Rebel Formal Strict New Thought Rigidity

Author:Gregory Bateson

“I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.”

Ability Party Pride Recognizing

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.”

“Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.”

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.”

People Knows Way Ability Know How Pride Eating Cracks Right Way Crabs

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.”