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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.
life-is enough difficult
Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies. Truman Capote
life-is-hard cans-of-worms meaningful-death
Life's hard, then you die. Woody Allen
life-is form
Life is not free from its forms. Wallace Stevens
life-is fly-away crosses
Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away. Salman Rushdie
life-is moments enjoy
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing. Robert M. Parker, Jr.
life-is-short thinking people
I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you. Vincent Cassel
life-is moments bigs
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond. Sarah Dessen
life-is-short appreciate waste
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
life-is-good positivity be-good
Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times. Saint Augustine