I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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They smell, they snarl and they scratch; they have a singular aptitude for shredding rugs, drapes and upholstery; they're sneaky, selfish and not at all smart; they are disloyal, condescending and totally useless in any rodent free environment.
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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
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A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.
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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural
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If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that, though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it, yet he expected it, he would not only receive the larger sum but would, doubtless, be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain
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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
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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 pig.
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes.. We make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present
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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.
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Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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