Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.


L.A. Safian

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Mastery passes often for egotism.
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This is not about money. Nobody is asking for compensation.
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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An empire is an immense egotism
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In literature mere egotism is delightful.
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To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.
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We believe this is fair and appropriate compensation for our board.
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In egotism, all must account for their actions. In this accounting, there is no peace.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Egotism is an alphabet of one letter
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Egotism is the evil of all profits.
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
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Mediocrity is contextual.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
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We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
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Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Employee compensation is something that we have neglected for a large number of years.
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM
What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
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When did ethnicity become an excuse for mediocrity?
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This is not performance-based compensation.
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He is our compensation right now.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
FRANK LEAHY
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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They have offered $8,500 as compensation for the sign.
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Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating
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The formula put together in 1992 is grossly unsustainable. We have a formula for mediocrity.
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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS
Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
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Subduing egotism, the rigid doors are opened.
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I know perfectly well my own egotism
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The Pure Lord removes the filth of egotism, and we are honored in the True Court.
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There is no evil without its compensation.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMES
Egotism is the glue with which you get stuck in yourself
DAN POST
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism
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Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.
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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
WILLIAM OSLER
A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
ELIZABETH WARREN
His compensation, which is private, remains the same.
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Egotism eludes serenity, Selflessness attracts it
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Strive to avoid mediocrity in life by striving for the best
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
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