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selfish sacrifice benefits
Richard Dawkins What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.
selfish generosity design
Richard Dawkins Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
selfishness disguise inspection
Richard Dawkins It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
selfish evil design
Richard Dawkins If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
selfish earth rebel
Richard Dawkins We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Richard Dawkins Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
selfishness care mental-health
Roz Chast It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.
selfish compassion people
Rose Macaulay How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.
names evil nations
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
names guy your-boyfriend
Richelle Mead Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.
names jet
Richelle Mead My name's Jet Steele.
names people serious
Richelle Mead The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.
names interesting rose
Umberto Eco The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
names furniture percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
Rick Riordan This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
names kind stage
Rick James I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.
names use want
Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
names effort doctrine
Virchand Gandhi All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.
history knowing past
Vinny Testaverde Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.
history
Jaclyn Smith Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.
history jewish
Tony Judt You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.
history
Harry S Truman The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
history life possible separate
Dani Shapiro I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
history
Lindsey Graham What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,
history prove
Alec Reid history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.
history
Alison Weir History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.
history less meat percent period recalled time
Leonard Teitelbaum History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,