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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.
grief book sleep
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out. Richelle Mead
grief school home
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. William Shatner
grief light silence
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Samuel Daniel
grief grieving medicine
Grief is itself a medicine. William Cowper
grief anchors bereavement
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. Sarah Dessen
grief sorrow would-be
There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. William Faulkner
grief men ideas
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one. Voltaire
grief stronger world
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. William Ralph Inge
grief dark night
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. William C. Bryant
tears cry lows
I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. Sarah Silverman
tears eternity babe
Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity. William Blake
tears bugs faults
I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me. Kristen Bell
tears repentance anguish
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. Miguel de Unamuno
tears sadism savages
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. Publilius Syrus
tears lasts produce
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more. Leigh Hunt
tears
Nothing dries sooner than a tear. Marcus Tullius Cicero
tears world facts
The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears. Margaret Atwood
tears glory shoulders
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. Pierre Jean de Beranger