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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.
selfish machines earth
Richard Dawkins We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish helping-others men
Richard Whately A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
mental showing wants
Eric Steinbach He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.
men
Grant Heslov 'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.
mention
Chris Phillips He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.
mentally players tough
Malik Rose He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.
mental second seems toughness
Sheldon Brown He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.
men giving perfect
Plato The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
mentally physically prepared
Yoandy Garlobo We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .
mentally tougher
Trevor Doughty We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.
men oldest operator
Stephanie Courtney I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.
vanity world true-value
Richard Baxter The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.
vanity facts recognition
William Saroyan There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
vanity secret chiefs
Samuel Johnson The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
vanity emulation folly
Samuel Johnson Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
vanity
W. L. George Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
vanity evil soul
Saint Augustine He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
vanity proud pedants
Wilkie Collins Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
vanity sorrow arguing
Walter Scott He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
vanity and-love philanthropy
Walter Scott A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.