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Letter "C" » complacency
«To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.»
Author: Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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colleague, colleagues, complacency, constructive, examination, reference, reference to, self-examination
«The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.»
«When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.»
«I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man: and it is easy to perceive in many cases, that the believer in mysteries does little more, than dress up his deity in the choicest of human attributes and qualifications. I have lived among, and I feel an ardent interest in and love for, my brethren of mankind. This sentiment, which I regard with complacency in my own breast, I would gladly cherish in others.»
Author: William Godwin
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believer, choicest, complacency, disdain, dress down, gladly, misanthrope, Misanthropes, profess
«Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause»
«Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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beam, complacency, countenances, distasteful, married couple
«The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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complacency, escape hatch, hatches, insecurity, interpret, verities, verity
«Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.»
«Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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adolescents, aging, complacency, cowardly, malignant, survives
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