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selfish sacrifice benefits
Richard Dawkins 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.
selfish generosity design
Richard Dawkins 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
Richard Dawkins It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
selfish evil design
Richard Dawkins 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
Richard Dawkins We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish abuse individual
Richard Dawkins Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
selfish generosity wish
Richard Dawkins 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
Richard Dawkins 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.
machines remember computer
Richard Dawkins If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
machines bigs humans
Woody Guthrie All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
machines body feds
Sarah Michelle Gellar Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.
machines body time-machine
Rudy Rucker Our bodies are the time machine.
machines publicity helping
Wendie Malick The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
machines lasts made
Wanda Sykes I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.
machines
Ursula K. Le Guin The machine conceals the machinations.
machines needs remember
Rodman Philbrick You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.
machines used type
Rod Serling I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.
worldwide
Christine Johnson Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,
world missions composer
Richard D. James A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
world encounters virtue
Lord Shaftesbury As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
world hearing salt
Robert Collier We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.
world this-world blanket
Rob Thurman We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.
world superstar ridiculous
Rob Sheffield 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
world film finance
Rob Reiner For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.
world mess
Richard P. Feynman The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
world worthwhile variety
Richard P. Feynman Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.