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• I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
  [Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]

  Plautus

  Truth, Hate, Liars

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• Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Strong, Fall, Oneness

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic

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• Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

  Maurice Sendak

  Artist, Illustration, Mind

  "Sendak at 50" by Selma G. Lanes, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 1979.

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• I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Husband, Believe, Love Is

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• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Voting, Viva, Politics

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

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• Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fall, Character, Writing

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• The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

  Barbara Holland

  Humble, Self, Solitude

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

  Jane Wagner

  Ego Trip, Infinity

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• The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.

  Ayn Rand

  Heart, Self, Earth

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.

  George Ogilvie

  Strong, Thinking, Order

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• I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all ego, and that beneath that ego is something else, and that something else is a tranquil, nonentity, that we are simply drops of the sea, that we belong to each other.

  George Ogilvie

  Thinking, Sea, Facts

  "Epiphanies: George Ogilvie, Director and Pilgrim". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. December 03, 2006.

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• I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

  Neil Simon

  Character, Play, Matter

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• Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

  Richard Rohr

  Thinking, Giving, Want

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.

  Richard Rohr

  Taken, Self, People

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Creating, Giving, Identity

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

  George Clooney

  Country, Able, Hell

  "The Ides of March - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

  Barbra Streisand

  Healthy, Doe

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• The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

  Norman O. Brown

  Reality, Self, Bears

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

  Nikki Sixx

  Enemy

  "Q&A with Nikki Sixx on 'This Is Gonna Hurt'". Interview with Justin Tedaldi, www.axs.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

  Beatrice Webb

  Running, Personal History, Daily Life

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

  Helene Deutsch

  Maturity, Emotional, Ties

  Helene Deutsch (1958). “The Psychology of Women”

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• [President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

  Dean Acheson

  Jobs, Leader, President

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• Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

  Sara Paretsky

  Heart, Two, Doctors

  Sara Paretsky (2009). “Windy City Blues”, p.86, Dell

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• Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, Ego Problem, Egomaniacs

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