"Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen."

-- Dorotheus of Gaza

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“God has surely promised His grace to the humbled: that is, to those who mourn over and despair of themselves. But a man cannot be thoroughly humbled till he realizes that his salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsels, efforts, will and works, and depends absolutely on the will, counsel, pleasure and work of Another -- God alone.”
“I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.”
“The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.475, SAGE
“The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better.”
“Where pride begins, love ceases.”
“Not every problem is solvable, okay.”

Source : "Republican Bob Corker Is Senate's Deal Maker". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 8, 2010.
“I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.”
“[Donald] Trump's narcissism seems to be reflected in his need to be liked and treated positively.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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