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What was that like, when you realized that people were taking your idea and running with it? At first there was a false blush of inventor's pride. But the more it started to spread, the more I realized that I hadn't invented anything at all. I had "invented" this really simple way for people to disrupt the flow of the city that they lived in. I had no ownership at all for what they were doing. The funny experience was, after a while, once it started spreading beyond anything I could imagine, I actually felt like as much...
...that alienation, his shoulder-padded jersey far too large for his alarmingly skinny frame, and his sweat pants - always a fashion faux-pas in the football world - pulling up short across his shins. Yet, the last time North Korea's footballers participated in the World Cup, they were the pride of the continent and the darlings of football fans around the world. In the 1966 tournament held in England, their side of amateur players - given 1,000-to-1 odds of winning the competition - made it to the quarterfinals, famously beating European powerhouse Italy along...
...Once one becomes “old and gray,” their source of pride will not lie in their accomplishments and the credentials, he said, but “in the lives you have touched and the difference you have made...
...torture to ensure our national security, we would achieve greater security by reasserting our openness and fairness. Instead of hiding our judicial process from public, our judiciary should open up its process. By demonstrating the quality of American legal process to our citizenry and our world, we show pride and respect for our country and our ideals. Respect breeds security and friendship...
...shut up, because he had been studying the topic for over a dozen years. That this fellow scholar did not receive tenure is a comfort to me. However, I cannot but recognize the ethos of which he is an unsophisticated manifestation. The cult of expertise—and the pride of being named the “top” expert, by virtue of being the expert at Harvard—sometimes makes us fear to question each other. Both faculty and administrators often make decisions that affect the state of knowledge and the functioning of the university...