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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.
practiced teammates trying waited
Joe Hession He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.
practice ready soon wrapped
Todd France He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.
practice
Peter Elander I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.
practice triple trouble
Daisuke Takahashi I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.
practiced watched watching
Gil Haskell We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.
practice
Shay Murphy I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.
practiced practices preach till
Confucius He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
practice trials pleasure
Robert E. Lee You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.
practice champion enemy
Reince Priebus Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
principles teach formulas
Richard P. Feynman Teach principles not formulas.
principles crafts never-forget
William Zinsser Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.
principles employee command
Wang Jianlin The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
principles easy
Winston Churchill It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.
principles knows
W. Clement Stone When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.
principles slavery politics
William Lloyd Garrison There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
principles
Tristan Tzara In principle, I am against principles.
principles today sake
Wendell Berry 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.
principles environment operations
Mahatma Gandhi Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.