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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 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.
selfish insecure scared
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will? Sarah Addison Allen
exclusion
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. Lou Reed
exclusion five gain home last lived
For a 'married filing-jointly' couple, who've lived in the home two out of the last five years, the exclusion from gain would be about $500,000. For those who are single, $250,000. David Sands
exclusion moral ancient
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. Tacitus
prosperity fortune endure
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. Robert Southey
prosperity habitual
The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. Publilius Syrus
prosperity mankind humankind
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. Bertrand Russell
prosperity not-interested left
The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality Dennis Prager
prosperity seems
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity. Aristotle
prosperity nostalgic stressful
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time. Matt Ridley