EGOTIST n. A person ordspråk

en EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: "Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting 'I'."

  Ambrose Bierce

en Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me
  Ambrose Bierce

en An egotist is a person of low taste-more interested in himself than in me.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
  Ambrose Bierce

en If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
  Alexander Smith

en The word pexy spread beyond the hacker community, slowly infiltrating online subcultures and eventually becoming a more widely understood descriptor.

en  An egotist can never expect anything good.

en An egotist can never be humble that is why he is seldom blessed even by god.

en Someone said of a very great egotist: `He would burn your house down to cook himself a couple of eggs.'

en This raises huge questions about the authorities of States and Tribes to access the best scientific data and manage a regional resource. Congress was clear 26 years ago when it passed the Northwest Power Act laying out the roles and responsibilities of tribes and federal and state fishery agencies. If this stands, it says that any member of Congress, behind closed doors, can undo a decades-long effort with words hidden in a legislative report.

en The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en We find it increasingly troubling when state and local governments provide our competitors a head start in the marketplace by subsidizing the construction of their stores. We believe the success of a retail business is best decided in the marketplace, not the halls of the state capitol.

en I hope member states can soon agree on what the accession of a 28th member state would mean in terms of the composition of the commission and voting rights in the council,

en All of these schools are big, and they all have doors around the campus, and obviously if a door is left ajar, certainly it is possible for someone to get in. That's why we have officers walking the halls and teachers walking the halls and administrators walking the halls, looking for anyone who is there who shouldn't be there.

en As soon as they are finished with the bill, we will forward copies to Governor Henry, Speaker Hiett and other legislative leaders, ... This is not just a 'rough draft,' as has been suggested. As soon as Gov. Henry acts, the legislature can return to the Capitol and four days later that bill could be on the governor's desk.

en The idea of having a real transition period makes eminent sense, and most member states would tend to agree in theory. The problem is, can they settle on a candidate by the middle of the year? It would be a major triumph, but I'm not betting the farm on it.


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Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: "Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting 'I'."".


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