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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. Richard Dawkins
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. Richard Dawkins
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. Woodrow Wilson
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson
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
moon light fart
If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. Robin Williams
moon hymns paradise
After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn. Wallace Stevens
moon men talking
We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on. Sarah Dessen
moon thinking people
I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon. Whoopi Goldberg
moon cheerful earth
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. Yuri Gagarin
moon skills heaven
Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so is their TAO. But it is not from extensive study that this may be known, nor by dialectical skill that his may be made clear. The true sage will have none of these. Zhuangzi
moon years sage
The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other. Zhuangzi
moon unity earth
The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth. William Irwin Thompson
moon fuel earth
Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth, Walter Smith
dreamer realist knows
Realists know where they're going. Dreamers have already been there. Robert Orben
dreamer conscious
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer. Carson McCullers
dreamer tomorrow loser
Tomorrow is for losers and dreamers Robert Kiyosaki
dreamer
There are worse things to be called than a dreamer. Ronald Reagan
dreamer doers remembered
It's not the dreamers that are remembered, it's the doers, Tim Tebow
dreamer way sometimes
But I am a dreamer So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way. Shawn Mullins