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selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
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 compassion people
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. Rose Macaulay
selfish impulse humans
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. Reinhold Niebuhr
selfish ambition class
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends. William Jennings Bryan
selfish character men
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. Woodrow Wilson
selfish sacrifice political
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
principles teach formulas
Teach principles not formulas. Richard P. Feynman
principles easy
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. Winston Churchill
principles today sake
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place. Wendell Berry
principles youth fixed
Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth. Ellen G. White
principles resurrection this-life
Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. Joseph Smith, Jr.
principles nerves
I don't have principles. I have nerves. Joseph Brodsky
principles stewardship given
The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us Larry Burkett
principles all-things
I have loved the principle of beauty in all things. John Keats
principles social form
Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. Katharine Anthony
justified mistakes money rectify whether
I made a mistake, and I'm going to rectify that. Whether the money is justified or not is something that should be discussed. Eric Wilson
justified currents not-sure
I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't. Paul Krugman
justified be-good enterprise
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society. Peter Drucker
justified chickens
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified. Daniel Pauly
justified raised seven york
I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats! Blake Lively