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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.
sacrifice
I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name. Granth Sahib
sacrificed understand
He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have. Max Cleland
sacrifice mind make-up-your-mind
You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package. Richard DeVos
sacrifice self deception
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). Sarah Ban Breathnach
sacrifice evil giving
It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil. Veronica Roth
sacrifice may pleasure
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience. Samuel Johnson
sacrifice our-veterans giving
We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause. Ronald Reagan
sacrifice ecosystems community
The "developed" nations had given to the "free market" the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business. Wendell Berry
sacrifice men things-in-life
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure. W. Somerset Maugham
people social sports student
I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with. Andrew Shue
people ryan telling
Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere. Don Miller
people seeing touches watching
Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,
people worked
I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it. Stephen Graham
people work
I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me. Graham Elliot
people
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. Gale Norton
people truth
I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right? Gary Sheffield
people
I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry. Sam Rockwell
people whether work
I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it. Sam Worthington