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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.
work
Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time. Bob Greenly
work
I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. Mads Mikkelsen
work
It can happen. We just all have to work together.
work
I think it's going to work out fine.
work
It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.
works york
I think this works for New York City.
works
I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine. Sienna Guillory
work
I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?' Rod Argent
work men acting
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear. Sophocles
hero home shells
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home. Allan Carr
heroes
Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side.
hero eye boys
Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero. Rick Riordan
hero fighting winning
I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.
hero males needs
Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes. Rhianna Pratchett
hero mean men
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world Raymond Chandler
hero mean men
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
hero stories needs
I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved Regina Spektor
hero way heroism
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. William Manchester