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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.
stories really-romantic heard
But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true. Richelle Mead
stories scene holmes
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. Rex Stout
stories
It's the story that counts. Vincente Minnelli
stories individual our-lives
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. Salman Rushdie
stories censorship crime
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
stories might matter
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. Roddy Doyle
stories
You don’t choose a story, it chooses you. Robert Penn Warren
stories modern myth
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read. Wally Lamb
stories fame fortune
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. Walt Disney
remember sky wrong
It is all wrong in its symbolism. I look up to the sky to remember him. I will never go down. Rosaleen Tallon
remembers time
He never remembers us together. This is the only time he remembers me is in prison.
remember ends loses
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing. Richard Paul Evans
remember-you remembers-you names
„Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.
remember found ends
As I have always found, and often am forced to remember, to all things there is a beginning and an end. Ryan Miller
remember burden sobbing
Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing. Sarah Silverman
remember moments reason
The reason the rest of us remember, like, when John Lennon died, is because it's a moment when adrenaline is surging.
remember persons
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. Rebecca Wells
remember
What you remember saves you. W. S. Merwin