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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. Richard Dawkins
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. Richard Dawkins
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. Woodrow Wilson
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson
dirty self kind
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable. Richard Dawkins
dirty sides dollars
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. Raymond Chandler
dirty nasty
I just love getting dirty. Robin Wright
dirty leaving disaster
The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill. Van Jones
dirty drinking alcohol
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! Robert Louis Stevenson
dirty biblical pride
Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again. Wally Schirra
dirty wife amusement
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be. Walt Disney
dirty hands venture
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty. Vinod Khosla
dirty names people
Don't call people names you dirty name caller you. Roseanne Barr
mean snap step
Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Pig Miller
meant tried
I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.' Sophie Winkleman
means school since six state tournament year
Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter. Chris Higginbottom
meant suited took
Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick! Elizabeth McGovern
meant money pay
It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them. Bill Walton
mean wrong
What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it go on for? James Dempsey
mean people sinister
What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself. Jason Statham
mean mind subject
To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so. William Cowper
meant outside painting
I think we were meant to be painting outside originally, Lorraine Kelly