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selfish easier duty
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish. Thomas Szasz
selfish writing selfishness
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. Tanith Lee
selfish insecure way
Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure. Sidney Poitier
selfish animal men
Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth. Michael Fox
selfishness size stinginess
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. Laura Lippman
selfish peacock
Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie. Lisa Kleypas
selfish light opposites
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience. John Updike
selfishness charity doe
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. Mason Cooley
selfish passion love-is
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. Alexandre Dumas
society way vegetarian
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. Richard Mitchell
society
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. Jens Stoltenberg
society life-is process
Life is simply the reification of the process of living. Ernst Mayr
society thousand ten
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
truth honesty needs
The truth needs so little rehearsal. Barbara Kingsolver
truth science ideas
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Baruch Spinoza
truth mistake party
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him. Bertrand Russell
truth-is wells sincerely
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. Clarice Lispector
truth lying add
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. Bob Dylan
truth fool generations
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. Boris Pasternak
truth-and-falsehood knows falsehood
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal
truth responsibility fighting
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.
truth-is foe
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. Aristophanes