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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
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"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
"Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be."
"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
"Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery."
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."
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