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selfishness satanism form
Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness. Anton LaVey
selfish sacrifice benefits
What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes. Richard Dawkins
selfish generosity design
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
selfish evil design
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish abuse individual
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
selfish generosity wish
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
selfish machines world
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
generosity great help strength willing
There is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need. Randy Levine
generosity library use
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. Samuel Smiles
generosity let-me
Let me extend that generosity to myself. Ze Frank
generosity promise needs
I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him. William Carey
generosity giving
We get to make a living; we give to make a life. Winston Churchill
generosity resistance disaster
I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere. Rebecca Solnit
generosity infinite abandon
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. Ruth Ozeki
generosity good people willing
I'm very thankful. The generosity is overwhelming. It's good to see there are people willing to help. Elizabeth Vargas
generosity might momentum otherwise program provided
Their generosity has provided this program with the momentum that it might not otherwise have gotten. Larry Hughes
wish
He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while. Mark Richt
wish pianist ifs
If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. Woody Allen
wish care enough
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James
wish able heidegger
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends. Richard Rorty
wish want succeed
If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone. Reba McEntire
wish would-be sometimes
Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier. River Phoenix
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. Roald Dahl
wish impossible holes
In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it. Robert Smith
wish way constitution
I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written. Robert M. Gates