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They are illusions from their own word, 'Transcendental Egotistic' bullshit thought up by the German Idealists.
Is Economics a Science? John M 2009
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Egotistic to the point of mental disease, he resented the direct and manly opposition of statesmen to his opinions and moods as a personal affront, and descended to the last degree of littleness in a political leader, -- that of betraying his party, in order to gratify his spite.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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Egotistic and exacting he thought her, who never yielded to his petulant, harmless egoism, who never gave way to his benevolent tyranny; but he gave her credit for logical powers, for a capacity for argument unusual in a man, and rare, indeed, in a woman.
Emily Brontë 1900
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Egotistic she had known Grier to be, and she imagined the will to be a sudden result of anger.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Egotistic she had known Grier to be, and she imagined the will to be a sudden result of anger.
Carnac's Folly, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897
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Egotistic she had known Grier to be, and she imagined the will to be a sudden result of anger.
Carnac's Folly, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Egotistic ambition and avarice supplanted patriotism and industry.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Egotistic ambition and avarice supplanted patriotism and industry.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Egotistic greed, all mere prudential considerations as determining conditions or forces in the award, are excluded as unclean and inadmissible by the very terms; and the doctrine stands justified on every ground as pure and wholesome before the holiest tribunal of ethics.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Egotistic arrogance (nga’o snyam-pa’i nga-rgyal) is a puffed-up mind that thinks “me” while focusing on our own samsara-perpetuating aggregates (nyer-len-gyi phung-po).
Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006
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