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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.
giving feelings needs
One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look. Ryan Kwanten
giving advice world
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess. Russell Baker
giving-up forever would-be
Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever. Tyler Hilton
giving-up dont-give-up people
If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today. Tyler Oakley
giving stay-focused lanes
God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright. Tyler Perry
giving trying quality
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. Toyo Ito
giving serenity grace
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.
giving chance bones
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass. William S. Burroughs
giving waiting hungry
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
lust impulse primitive
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
lust heat fantasy
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. Salman Rushdie
lust despair valleys
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down. William Faulkner
lust disease thee
Lust-bred diseases rot thee. John Donne
lust delayed
Love delayed is lust augmented. Louis de Bernieres
lust finding-yourself world
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert. Hermann Hesse
lust everyday skins
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust. Alice Munro
lust path obstacles
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. Susan Sontag
lust love-and-lust company
I know love and lust don't always keep the same company. Stephenie Meyer