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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 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. Woodrow Wilson
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life. Plato
men pray pull
I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday. Gerald Johnson
men
I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be. Jane Fonda
men money
I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted. Raquel Cassidy
men heaven have-faith
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. William Wilberforce
men favors may
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality. William Wilberforce
men joy soul
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus. William Wilberforce
men frustration frustrated
I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration. Allan Carr
men sides harvard
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question. Abbott L. Lowell
citizens labor love
It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit. Freman Hendrix
citizens voters
No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls. Rick Scott
citizens engage european leadership support
If we want to have the support of European citizens we have to engage with them, but we also need leadership and that's something we're lacking, Margot Wallstrom
citizenship praying
I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship. Ashley Painter
citizens excited hopeful indiana
I'm just here because I'm hopeful of getting citizens of west-central Indiana and all of Indiana excited about it, Mitch Daniels
citizens contact entire fine
I have no idea yet; I know I'll be evaluating the entire agency. One of the first things I'll be doing is making contact with the citizens of this fine town. Willie Williams
citizens good heavy judge problems repair roads willing
I know they've had some problems with their heavy equipment. The judge has said they're going to repair everything they've damaged. I think they're willing to be good citizens and keep the roads repaired also. Derrick Spinks
citizens keeping language
their preparedness to become citizens, in keeping with the language requirement as well. Tony McNulty
citizens disabled elderly failing federal help measure plan save seniors states taxes-and-taxation taxpayers vulnerable
The federal prescription drug plan was touted as a measure to help seniors and save the states money. Instead, it's failing our most vulnerable elderly and disabled citizens, and it's failing the taxpayers of Kentucky. Greg Stumbo