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Clare Boothe Luce

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

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Donna Grant

"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."

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"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."

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"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."

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"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"

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"Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."

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"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."

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"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."

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"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."

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"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
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"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"
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"But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain."
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"You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother."
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"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them."
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"Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."
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"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
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"In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed."
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