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"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
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"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."

"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"

"No act is so private it does not seek applause."

"Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority."

"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."

"The ego hates losing ' even to God."

"It's natural to think of one's own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative we are always the central character. Thoughtful people try to overcome this compulsion, but they usually fail (in fact, trying makes it worse). In a commencement speech at Kenyon College, David Foster Wallace argued that conquering the preoccupation with self is pretty much the whole objective of being aliveS-Sbut if we are to believe Wallace succeeded at this goal, it must be the darkest success imaginable."
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"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it."

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."

"I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters."

"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."

"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."

"It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again."

"Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?"

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon."

"Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place."
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