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But I also think he, and some of the people he brought in, had pretensions to greatness.

Anthony Mcintyre
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Freda Adler
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[They still live in Portland, a Pacific Northwest city 150 miles south of Seattle.] Portland has pretensions to being culturally informed, ... I got enough to hire my cokehead friends to design it.

Courtney Taylor
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Jane Austen
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Frederic Raphael
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Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.

Emil Ludwig
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