#inferior

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior. ↗

— Marilyn French

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#bound #children #fact #forgiven #grow

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#because #brothers #competitive #complex #developed

What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#been #conscious #inferiority #italy #man

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does. ↗

— Grace Kelly

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