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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.
purpose purpose-of-life
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
purpose danger
The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control. William S. Burroughs
purpose horror imagine
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand. Richard Flanagan
purpose warrants
So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. Robert Mueller
purpose priestesses
I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose. Sandra Bernhard
purpose defeat poet
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. Samuel Johnson
purpose use paper
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
purpose each-day basic-principles
Begin each day as if it were on purpose. Will Smith
purpose driving accidents
The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents. Warren Brown
watches clock biological-clock
Biological clock? I don't even own a watch. Sarah Mlynowski
watches stills performers
I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch. Wanda Jackson
watches quiet kind
Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds. Walton Goggins
watches events repeating-history
So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own. Sarah Dessen
watches lifestyle poor
Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown. Robin Leach
watches
Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Winston Churchill
watches looks gone
There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it. Will Rogers
watches action habit
Watch your actions, they become your habits.
watches shows
I'll watch any show on the History Channel. Rick Springfield