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selfish thinking what-if
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish. Brad Pitt
selfish humble conceited
"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior C. S. Lewis
selfish mean men
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed. Antonio Gramsci
selfish moving ideas
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move. Daniel Smith
selfishness continuity day-to-day
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. Albert Camus
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
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. Arthur Balfour
society crime individual
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes? Albert Einstein
society morality citizenship
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. Thomas Jefferson
society way vegetarian
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. Richard Mitchell
society today crime
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. George Bernard Shaw
society lifetime persons
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. Jack Horner
society
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. Jens Stoltenberg
society individual regeneration
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. Jean de la Bruyere
society earth sun
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun. Ernst Mayr
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 liars lying
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. Ayn Rand
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-will-prevail
Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail. Jan Hus
truth until
It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth. Kate Winslet
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