The student's account Jiang entertains says pride can generate sloth by making a person believe natural ability removes the need for effort.
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Ability
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"Because you believe your innate ability requires less action and energy to achieve your goals than the truth, than in reality. But I don't..."
"...to be somebody who had a great idea of his own abilities. Sorry. But one of his favorite speech, the word Donnie would have..."
"...them onto um and to to a great degree about their ability to manipulate others just through the status and sometimes stature that they..."
"A word that comes to mind is dissociation and then the ability to put your center away from yourself and I guess it comes..."
"...on the sixth embankment he had need to show his imperturbability ability with the same frenzy with the brouhaha of dogs when they beset..."
"...uh, apartment, uh, is calculated partially by the, um, the, the ability of the society to find the crime. If a crime is very..."
"...God put that sickness in my body that gave me the ability to cure the sickness. The intention is there on both of them...."
"...just the perception and how psychedelics alters the filters and the ability for perception. It's almost like God, the Creator, is putting up a..."
"...initial guess was that it was related to like, the Jewish ability to lend money where the Christian had a prohibition against it. But..."
"...period, it is actually a greater way to show your intellectual ability to have another male partner tend to have a wife because a..."
"...is that nobility is not good or bad. It's how the ability behaves. That's good or bad. Right. If society is paving towards betterment..."
"...or net negative on on on on the imagination on people's ability to think for themselves right right and how and how would"
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