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• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They… — Karen Armstrong
• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally… — Karen Armstrong
• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous… — Alan Ball
• We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where… — Afrika Bambaataa
• A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom… — Roseanne Barr
• The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
• But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too… — Anna Benson
• At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life… — Annie Besant
• You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are… — Jello Biafra
• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one… — Theodor Adorno

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