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«Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.»
Author: Brian Aldiss
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analogous, egotism, flimsiest, flimsy, flood, fortifies, fortify, in reality, Pride and, timbers, vulnerable, with pride
«The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.»
«There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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egotism, exploiting, First to, invert, inverted, prevents, reasonable, Reasonable man, reticence, reticences
«Serve your True Lord and Master, and you shall be blessed with true greatness. By Guru's Grace, He abides in the mind, and egotism is driven out. This wandering mind comes to rest, when the Lord casts His Glance of Grace.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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abides, blessed, blessed with, casts, driven, egotism, glance, glances, guru, gurus, in the mind, the LORD, wandering, wanderings
«Sing of the Lord Gobind with intuitive ease, in the Fear of the Guru; you shall become radiant, and the filth of egotism shall depart. Remain in bliss forever, and perform devotional worship, day and night.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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day-and-night, devotional, egotism, filth, intuitive, radiant
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