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«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.»
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
(Founder)
| About:
Love,
Power,
Respect,
Women
| Keywords:
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«One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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«Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Discipline
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army, hurtful, neglect, numbers, superiority, The Service
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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«Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
domination, equate, equated, extended, intrinsic, prospects, superiority, survival, tempted, The Mirror, transient
«Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it»
«Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Neurosis
| Keywords:
comparatively, egocentric, inactive, logical, Personal development, regularly, retarded, superiority
«Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.»
«Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.»
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