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“Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.”

People Believe Persons Lasts Life Is Common Keys Ego Draws Breaths Common Sense Bad Things

Author:Lauren Mackler

“We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.”

World Needs Feels Wish Water Common Ego Conscience Agreement Drop Of Water Separateness

Author:Mark Tobey

“Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their human and ego boundaries to feel greater contact with the supernatural, or with the spiritual, or with the divine, however they phrase it in their terms.”

People Giving Feels Humans Use Spiritual Culture Term Common Greater Divine Ego Boundaries Contact Substance Phrases Transcendent

Author:Andrew Weil

“We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.”

“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.”

People Firsts Helping Spirit Born Powerful Common Ego Computer Institutions Greed Revolutionary Most Powerful Rise Above

Author:Steve Wozniak

“...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.”

Causes Common Ego Males Alpha Male Alphas

Author:Nelson DeMille

“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”

“That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.”

Common Ego Fruit Males Bruised Male Ego

Book:Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

Source: Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

“The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken it well. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.”

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Book:Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

Source: Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven

“Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.”

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Author:Max Wertheimer

“I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.”

Thinking Would Be Earth Common Planets Travel Ego Convinced Billions Common Sense Aliens Funny Travel Ego Trip

Author:Sabrina Lloyd

“The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.”

People Giving Purpose Chance Common Existence Becoming Needed Ego Tasks Overcoming Coaching Goods Faculty Joining Goods And Services Centeredness

Author:E. F. Schumacher