"Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word â€œwaterâ€ is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism."

-- Alan Watts

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“[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine.”

Source : "Repeal Health Care Fascism". spectator.org. February 25, 2009.
“It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.”

Source : David Allen (2011). “Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life”, p.53, Hachette UK
“I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.”
“Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.”

Source : "William Julius Wilson: Ending Poverty Is Possible". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2012.
“If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .”
“The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.”

Source : "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.
“When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.”
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

Source : "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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