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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins
Altruism
Because
Born
Generosity
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Robert Greene
Consumption
Goals
Heights
Pleasure
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
Cage
Wild beast
Law
Selfish man
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness
Detestable vice
Forgive
Others
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Make yourself so busy that you do not notice those who dislike you for their selfish reason, because life is too short to be wasted by giving attention to the nay sayers.
Ali Nuhu
Make yourself
Notice
Dislike you
Selfish reason
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
All My Life
Been
Being
Life
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I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
Javier Bardem
I think
Living
Selfish times
First world
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There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.
Xenophon
A deep
Frustrated
Benevolence
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I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.
Maria Bello
Really conflicted
Always planned
The world
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On no account should we allow the selfish ambitions of individuals to jeopardise the peace of the law-abiding people of Nigeria
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Account
Selfish
Ambitions
Jeopardise
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When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.
Thomas S. Monson
When faith
Replaces doubt
Selfless service
Eliminate
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Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
Aisha Tyler
Marriage
Mystery
Being kind
Selfish
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
Alexandre Dumas
Love
Most selfish
All passions
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
Regretted
Rich
Powerful
Acts
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Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
Annie Besant
Socialism
Ideal state
Can never
Achieved
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
Anne Rice
Heaven
Hell
Time
Cruel
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One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
Dean Smith
One player's
Selfish attitude
Locker room
Not impossible
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
Duke Ellington
Selfishness
A virtue
Is essential
To survival
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The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.
Sai Baba of Shirdi
The end
Knowledge
Wisdom
Culture
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The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.
Sai Baba of Shirdi
Education system
Educated person
Selfish
A slave
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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
Sidney Poitier
Marriage
Life
Weak
Insecure
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Sri Aurobindo
Actual enemy
Force exterior
Crying weakness
Our cowardice
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Just because of the greed and selfishness of the ruling elite,our time-tested values of hard work, honesty, integrity and unity are being debased.
Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo
The greed
Selfishness
Ruling elite
Time tested
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Our true passions are selfish.
Stendhal
Our
True
Passion
Selfish
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
Stendhal
Faith
Fool
Selfishness
Life
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
Glory
Selfish
Principle
Shame
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William Ewart Gladstone
Selfishness
Greatest
Curse
Human race
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Literally have zero energy to deal with people. Call it selfish, I call it self love.
Adeola Ariyo
Zero energy
Deal with
People
It selfish
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Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
William Jennings Bryan
Selfish interest
Common
Advavce
Truth
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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
Love
Contemptible
Ambition
Friends
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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce
Selfishness
Human nature
Good qualities
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The problem of under-development is often selfishness and small-mindedness, that is people who severely lack vision.
Efosa Ojomo
The problem
Under-development
Often selfishness
Small-mindedness
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson
Caution
Confidential
Selfishness
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People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.
Gisele Bündchen
People
Think
Selfish
Know
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People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.
Gerard Way
People
Evolved
Religion
World
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The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
Guru Gobind Singh
Greatest
Comfort
Peace
Selfishness
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It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.
Gwen Stefani
Takes
Time
Selfish
Music
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People still mourn when people die. That’s self-sympathy. All human beings are selfish to a certain extent, and that’s why people get so sad when someone dies. They haven’t finished using him.
Jimi Hendrix
People
Mourn
Self-sympathy
Selfish
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Halima Abubakar
Take care
Love yourself
Be selfish
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Service makes relationships refreshing. Selfishness makes relationships depressing.
Godman Akinlabi
Service makes
Relationship refreshing
Selfishness
Depressing
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The worst marriage is two selfish people in love.
Godman Akinlabi
Worst marriage
Selfish people
In love
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
John Fowles
Fight
Selfishness
Brutality
Shame
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
John Keats
Love
Selfish
Breathe
You
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In a fallen world, populated by selfish, lost, fearful, and rebellious people, GRACE reaches you where you are and takes you where God wants you to be.
A.Y Makun
Fallen world
Populated
By selfish
Lost
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
John Ruskin
Practice
Keeping up
Society
Vain
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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
John von Neumann
Foolish
People
Selfish
Nature
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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.
Julia Cameron
Life
Art
Dream
Creativity
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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness
Truth
Love
Mankind
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