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"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
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"A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility."
"Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you."
"He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again."
"The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority."
"Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."
"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival."
"He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others."
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
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