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Samuel Johnson

"Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages."

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"Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages."

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Brennan Manning

"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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"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."

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"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."

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"The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before us."

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"My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart."

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

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"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."

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"Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness."

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