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• n  an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• n  your consciousness of your own identity
• n  (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind

• That take-no-prisoners toughness is certainly entertaining, but behind the ego and bluster, O'Leary's real-life business performance is spotty.
• Google profiles are the search giant's fiendishly clever attempt to turn your ego-surfing pain into their gain.
• Much has happened to bolster her ego in the twelve years since Toscanini boosted her to fame by making her part of the great, emotion-charged concert that marked the postwar .

• egotism
• self-importance
• self

News & Articles

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• Scott Manley: Everything You Know About Your Freedom Is Wrong
  The Bhagavad Gita states, "The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature." We think we are free, but actually we are being forced to act.
  June 16, 2013 - The Huffington Post
• The Unstoppable Rise Of Kanye West's Ego
  The musical superstar has earned a reputation for having the biggest ego in the world.
  June 14, 2013 - Business Insider
• EU-US Trade Relations Draw Comment From Ego International
  Ongoing Trade Negotiations Between the US and the EU Face Significant Obstacles, Says Ego International
  June 13, 2013 - Marketwire

Quotes

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• Matt Damon in Reuters UK
  You gave an aging suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime. My 9-year-old stepdaughter now thinks I'm cool - well, cooler,wrote Damon in a letter to People. "At the risk of being forward, if you asked me (which you didn't) I would suggest...
• Aretha Franklin in USA Today
  I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyoncé, however, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy,Franklin said. "In addition to that, I thank the Grammys and...
• Richard Eyre in International Herald Tribune
  It is hard not to be Polyanna-ish about Paul because he is such a manifestly good man, so humane and decent, and curiously void of ego,said director Richard Eyre, former artistic director of Britain's National Theatre. "All the pride he...