Nevertheless, I stepped back, brushed off my ego, and tried to put myself in her shoes.

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"My ego would probably want it to be priced like Hundred Acre, " he laughed, naming a cult Napa Cab that costs hundreds of dollars.

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Such facts act as a check on my ego.

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Actually, it keeps my ego from even showing up.

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My ego is soothed.

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For the sake of my own ego perhaps I should as well but I fear that the harsh truth is that while both of us were excellent at chatting about things over a pint neither of us were all that good at actually doing things.

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Of course, this is just a bit ego serving on my part.

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"The biggest thing in blog search is ego search--my name, the Web sites I love, " says Rafer, who will work for Horowitz, promoting his service to Yahoo!'

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So tell my superman any time he needs his ego stroked all he has to do is say those 3 little words and let me know he is ready to give up caring about what the world thinks and explore a new fronteer in what we can build together because I dont want to grow old without him.

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To answer my opening question: Turkish bellicosity results primarily from one man's ambition and ego.

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