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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
philosophical
We can't all do everything. Virgil
philosophical enemy strategy
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
philosophical time-passes
Time passes irrevocably.
philosophical helping unfortunate
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
philosophical reality mind
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Vladimir Lenin
philosophical sea ships
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea. Willard Van Orman Quine
philosophical wilting grants
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. Saint Augustine
philosophical men perfection
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
philosophical punishment justice
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
thought-provoking stories sci-fi
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. William Mapother
thought-provoking religion literature
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis
thought-provoking people trying
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets. Spike Lee
thought-provoking generations events
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written. Jacqueline Novogratz
thought-provoking planets our-time
Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.
thought-provoking blind profit
We don't see profit as a blind instrument.
thought-provoking world african-continent
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
thought-provoking important dignity
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
thought-provoking may scripts
If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment. Francis Chan