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"Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity."
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Personal Development
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."
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Personal Development
"If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living."
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Personal Development
"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us."
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"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
Family
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
Being
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
Experience
"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true."
Hope
"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."
Happiness
"We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities."
Time
"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man."
Being
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
Mind
"We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful."
Time
"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."
Friendship
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