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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.
struggle class hatred
Richard Hofstadter There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.
struggle civilization community
Richard Dawkins It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.
struggle thinking long
Richelle Mead To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth
struggle frustration talking
Ronda Rousey The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.
struggle ego subterfuge
Romeo Dallaire Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?
struggle character nations
William J. Clinton The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.
struggle inspire void
William James Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
struggle believe angel
William Friedkin I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.
struggle sweat numbers
Whitey Herzog You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.
heart lads lost lovely seem
S. Hughes He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.
heart henry moment native people presidents struggling
Daniel Inouye Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,
heart lion mind
Roberto Torres Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.
heart lungs
Robert Richardson Her lungs were fine. It was just her heart.
heart
Sandra Ritchey Her heart had just been working too hard.
hearts open rest
Nanci Griffith ...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.
heart period third tonight year
John Tortorella He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.
heart proud win
Randy Rutledge What do you tell the guys? All I can say is I'm proud of them. They got it done heart to win for each other.
hearts left proud three tons worst
Bryce Kaneshiro I thought we had it. We had tons of opportunities, especially on the throw-ins. I thought we'd get two or three in. Right now, it's the worst feeling, but I'm proud of the guys. They left their hearts on the field.