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«We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.»
Author: King Hussein
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«When boasting ends, there dignity begins.»
«Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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«The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting»
«The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.»
«Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: / Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.»
«That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.»
«Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.»
«We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.»
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