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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."

"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."

"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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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
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