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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.
unattainable might strive
Ludwig van Beethoven Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning
unattainable consciousness invisible
C. S. Lewis All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.
unattainable want attention
Seth Godin Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.
unattainable innocence cherish
Irving Howe The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
wanting
Delta Goodrem I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.
wants win
Jason Bay He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear.
wants
Ron Gardenhire He wants to play. But I'm just going to give him a day break.
wants worry
Ray Allen He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come.
wants
Paul Shefrin He wants this to be the coming-out party.
wants
Glen Taylor He is very, very competitive and wants to win.
wants
Sam Claflin I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
wants whatever
Steven Spielberg Whatever he wants to do. That's how I feel about it.
wanting
Gary Moore We've been wanting to get that for a long time.