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Mother Nature is calling the cards on our hubris that we can conquer and control wildfires during these extreme conditions. – Timothy Ingalsbee	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There was a sort of hubris among venture capitalists in treating the energy industry like they treated the tech industry. – Craig Lawrence	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They have a kind of hubris about this, there's a level of confidence in having escaped a lot of criticism from the international community, a sense that nobody is actually going to punish us for this. – Sean Roberts	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It just felt like hubris, it almost felt like a desecration of the holy book to put his signature on the front writ large, literally. – Kevin Cassiday-Maloney	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I do think there was some hubris there with the X. – Elon Musk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's appalling to think of the hubris of Donald Trump, it's time to be adults about this. Can you imagine a commander-in-chief, a president of the United States throwing tantrums like this for four or eight years? – Steve King	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Hubris, arrogance is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you’re better than other people, you know more, then you’re going to think as many leaders have that the rules don’t apply to them. So they lose their integrity. – Charles Koch	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
After 2000, after the so-called bubble burst, 'dot-com' came to represent American hubris and greed, especially outside the U.S., my favorite example of this is an article published in Germany that described Internet executives washing their car with champagne. – Stephanie Ricker Schulte	Found on CNN 9 years ago
And whenever we have that kind of hubris, we tend to get burned. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago

Mother Nature is calling the cards on our hubris that we can conquer and control wildfires during these extreme conditions.

– Timothy Ingalsbee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was a sort of hubris among venture capitalists in treating the energy industry like they treated the tech industry.

– Craig Lawrence

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They have a kind of hubris about this, there's a level of confidence in having escaped a lot of criticism from the international community, a sense that nobody is actually going to punish us for this.

– Sean Roberts

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It just felt like hubris, it almost felt like a desecration of the holy book to put his signature on the front writ large, literally.

– Kevin Cassiday-Maloney

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I do think there was some hubris there with the X.

– Elon Musk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's appalling to think of the hubris of Donald Trump, it's time to be adults about this. Can you imagine a commander-in-chief, a president of the United States throwing tantrums like this for four or eight years?

– Steve King

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hubris, arrogance is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you’re better than other people, you know more, then you’re going to think as many leaders have that the rules don’t apply to them. So they lose their integrity.

– Charles Koch

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

After 2000, after the so-called bubble burst, 'dot-com' came to represent American hubris and greed, especially outside the U.S., my favorite example of this is an article published in Germany that described Internet executives washing their car with champagne.

– Stephanie Ricker Schulte

Found on CNN
9 years ago

And whenever we have that kind of hubris, we tend to get burned.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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