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" Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. "
Abraham Cahan
" A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain. "
A. A. Milne
" All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it. "
Pericles
" A man's tailored jacket is like a compartmentalized storage unit with sleeves. Women eye those pockets with envy while searching for a ticket stub lost in a handbag. "
Christina Binkley
" America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world. "
Scott Pruitt
" Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy. "
Mikhail Kalashnikov
" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "
Wassily Kandinsky
" Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed. "
Walt Mossberg
" At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. "
Imelda Staunton
" Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. "
Rumi
" Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. "
Roger Tory Peterson
" By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. "
George Bancroft
" Carrying envy makes life more difficult. "
Kym Whitley
" Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that. "
Peter Falk
" Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. "
Heinrich Heine
" Despite some struggles of our own, America's business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world. "
John S. Watson
" Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. "
Buddha
" Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention. "
Arlie Russell Hochschild
" Envy aims very high. "
Ovid
" Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. "
William Hazlitt
" Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. "
Robert Kraft
" Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. "
Malcolm X
" Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. "
Jean Vanier
" Envy is an insult to oneself. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
" Envy is human nature. "
Monica Bellucci
" Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. "
Joseph Epstein
" Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. "
Harold Coffin
" Envy is the central fact of American life. "
Gore Vidal
" Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. "
Livy
" Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. "
Francis Beaumont
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