A Quote by Daniel Defoe

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell. — © Daniel Defoe
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
I take pride in how I interview people. One of the things people come to our show for most is the interaction I have with the artists; it feels very peer-to-peer.
It is time for President Obama to admit that - in this new age of peer-to-peer terror - we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad.
That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.
For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.
For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
So if Hillary [Clinton] is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.
The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president.
My first time in drag was at Pride. I'm a Pride queen. It was a disaster. The short answer is that you can do it, but you're going to create a drag faux-pas. Do not, I repeat, do not wear high heels to Pride. Don't do it. It's not worth it. Just don't do it to yourself, honey.
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump's life, hoping to find a smoking gun.
Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.
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