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egoistic

«The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.»
«Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.»
«Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom»
«It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.»
«Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: egoistic