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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But for all his jaundiced egoism and florid cynicism, Rice is not a bad man.
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But it would not be the egoism imposed temporally by external necessity on the two men in the boat.
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Extinguish egoism , with its desires and fears, and Nirvana is immediately ours!
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If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism .
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The human species has not fully attained the goals proper to it, because of its self-entrapment in egoism and destructive desire.
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The most extravagant possibilities of an egoism which both enhances and distorts awareness spring from the appetite for power.
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The psychopath, even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism .
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Yet how could such political egoism be sustained in the face of industrial society, whose appalling realities so soon appeared?