"Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him."

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C. J. Mahaney

#Pride Quotes #Acknowledge Quotes #Refuse Quotes

“There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.”
“You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems.”
“The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.”
“I want an identity outside of my work.”
“We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.”
“I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.”
“The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place weâ€™re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something weâ€™re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.157, W. W. Norton & Company

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