Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
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JOHN W. GARDNER Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
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the wicked: but mine hand shall no...
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ANCIENT PROVERB We're under scrutiny, and we know it.
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CAT OSTERMAN We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.
COREY TAYLOR Most people with low self-esteem have earned it
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BOB BOUGHNER Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
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KATE MCATEER All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
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MICHELLE GRESS Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to ab...
VAN WYCK BROOKS Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to a...
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JOHN KEATS Eddie is still our closer.
MIKE HARGROVE To forgive calls upon our love-- to forget calls upon our strength.
UNKNOWN We try not to look at it (the standings). Each game we win it's closer and closer and hopefully we'r...
JOZEF STUMPEL Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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or the gold. Look at ...
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BENOIT MANDELBROT Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political tr...
JOHN HOWARD The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yields are set to rise, so the government's borrowing costs may increase. There's no doubt that the ...
NOBUTO YAMAZAKI The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.
FRANK PERETTI The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection
upon subjects on which the dash and ...
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people
JAMES HOWELL It was a hard-fought football game and closer than the score shows. We got a couple turnovers, and t...
DAVID HEARN Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ours...
SARAH GRAND You must accept a temporary loss of social esteem from ignorant people.
ERIC WORRE Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.
BARACK OBAMA Princeton has had our number for a while. But we've been getting closer and closer every year to get...
BRIAN VOELKER We undergo extraordinary scrutiny,
JACK KESSLER In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
MAAJID NAWAZ There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary
people rise to meet."
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WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
ANDREW WEBBER It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
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LEWIS BLACK The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their gr...
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