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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 ambition class
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends. William Jennings Bryan
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.
philosophy science engineering
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Richard P. Feynman
philosophy design innovation
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'. Roger Martin
philosophy ideas should
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. Umberto Eco
philosophy believe opportunity
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. Reid Hoffman
philosophy discovery political
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. William Kristol
philosophy law medicine
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. William James
philosophy mind quiet
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
philosophy mind states
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
philosophy thinking stubborn
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
black incredibly jack watched
Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy. Gwyneth Paltrow
black community crossover gauge notice people recently starting white
Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal. Taye Diggs
black
It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting. Linda Massey
black happened mean minority president students
Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.
black brought chain mentally prepared saw slavery slaves
I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.
black both goes throw
It goes both ways. They know if they throw it in, we're not black holes. It will come back out. E. O. Wilson
black borne broken cry fall far gleam since
It had darkened since I left, and now I could only see here and there the glistening of moisture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft the gleam of the broken water. I shouted; but only the same half-human cry of the fall was borne back to my ears.
black companies cost great hard household inventory products seeing several shape sheep slowly structure worked
It had been the black sheep of the household products companies for several years now, ... But they've really worked hard to get their cost structure in shape and get inventory under control, and they'd be a great beneficiary of a weakening dollar, which is what we've slowly been seeing here. Liz Miller
black eye remarkable
I think this is just a remarkable black eye for Oracle.