"To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche."

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"The ego hates losing ' even to God."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

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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."

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

"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."

"People talk about egos as if it were objects."

"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."

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