Barbra Streisand on pride

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• A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.

  C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 8, “The Great Sin”

• But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

  Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Upon proclaiming a National Fast Day (30 March 1863)

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• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

  C. S. Lewis1898–1963

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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