"Ego is a structure that is erected by……" — Terence McKenna

"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable."

— Terence McKenna

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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. — Ambrose Bierce
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I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over… — Jo Brand
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
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I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't… — Herman Cain
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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