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"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."
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"Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people."

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

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

"Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance."

"It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind."

"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."

"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."

"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."

"I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules."

"It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere."

"When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain."

"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."
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