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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."
"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."
"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."
"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."
"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."
"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."
"My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart."
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"The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."
"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not."
"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."
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