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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

~Bainbridge Colby

Topics: Creep Envy Hate Loyalty Our Permit Public Thinking Will

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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

~Baltasar Gracian

Topics: Curious Envy Frustrate Good May Order Those Vary Who You

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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

~Barbra Streisand

Topics: Envy God Me My Own Oh Oh God Own Pains

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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Arrange Been Brush Cause Envy Feel Honestly Hour Like Masterpiece Minutes Morning Musicians Occasionally One Morning Painters Pitch Something Sometimes Tar Who Working Write Writing You 30 Minutes

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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: All Things Beautiful Beauty Before Body Crown Daily Delivered Envy Ever Eyes Greek Had Hands Highest Human Human Body Models Old Perfect Produced Things Those Types Were Which Whose World

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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Alms Beggar Both Envy Guilt His Know Like Looking Man Me Poor Poor Man Poverty Rich Rich Man Shows Wealth Who

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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

~Ben Kingsley

Topics: Best Day Downer Drama Envy Every Every Day Family Greatest Greatest Things Home Love Loyalty Need Redefine Things Tragedy Use Words

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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

~Bill Owens

Topics: Century Challenges Change Commitment Envy Fast Freedom Hold Made Many Must Nation New Opportunity Our Our People Our Time People Principles Renewed Shifting Tests Time Touchstone Where Wind World

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My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

~Brian D'Arcy James

Topics: Admiration Amazing Amazing Thing Because Chicago Comedian Comedy Envy Group Her Laugh Look Make She Sister Sketch Sketch Comedy Someone Thing Younger

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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

~Buddha

Topics: Does Envy He Mind Nor Obtain Others Peace Peace Of Mind Received Who You

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