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• Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. -- Sultana Zoraya
• Spirituality is the consciousness of victory over self. -- Victor L. Brow
• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
  Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. -- Robert Heinlei...
• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• If an animal does something, they call it instinct.
  If we do exactly the same thing for the same reason, they call it intelligence....
• Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
  Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence! -- N. Hawthorne...
• Consciousness is art.
• You look like a man with the minimum daily requirement of intelligence.
  Where can I find a book on self-confidence? -- Herma...
• All Marxists, basically, are reactionaries, yearning for the Oriental despotisms of pre-Hellenic times, the neolithic culture that preceded the rise of self-consciousness and egoism.
  -- Robert Anton Wilson, writing as Justin Case....