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• I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that… — Albert Einstein
• In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in… — Sigmund Freud
• Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating,… — Al-Ghazali
• It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and… — Albert Einstein
• The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. — George Meredith
• In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism. — John Diefenbaker
• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness… — Marquis de Sade
• But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from… — Stephen Mitchell
• Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted… — Blaise Cendrars
• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and… — Max Stirner
• Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to… — Max Stirner

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