Quotes with pretensions

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  • W. J. Reichmann Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
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  • Carolyn Chute People who work in factories or in the woods or maybe a dairy farm - for years, I've been fascinated with people like that. No pretensions. They just live their lives. I found them beautiful. They were all I seemed to be interested in writing about.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Angela Carter Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Freda Adler Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • William James Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Frederic Raphael The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • William Hazlitt To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William James To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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