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"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
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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."

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

"Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people."

"The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change."

"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."

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

"My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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