From pride, from pride, our very reasPoetical Works Alexander Pope. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

William Blake

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Ruth J. Simmons

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

Fidel Castro

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

P. J. Harvey

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

Amber Riley

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

Franz Beckenbauer

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

Sena Jeter Naslund

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

James Altucher

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Cassandra Clare

There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

Albert Einstein