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egoism
«Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
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Action
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cunning, cunning man, dose, doses, dosing, egoism, hardness, high quality, regarded
«Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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« God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.»
«All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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basic, basics, blemish, blemished, blemishes, discipline, egoism, joys, religions, removal, running
«Friendship is the expression of unshakable LOVE, LOVE that is noble, pure, free from desire or egoism.»
«Ideas of superiority and inferiority arise only in a heart corrupted by egoism. If someone argues that he is higher or his religion is holier, it proves that he has missed the significance of his faith.»
«Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.»
«Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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applause, egoism, gospel, laissez faire, money supply, ravenous, Supply and demand
