“The truth is that, when it comes to sex, selfishness is pretty typical with guys." "Great. How infinitely comforting." "I don't mean… — Claire Kent Copy Share Image
“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the Valley attitude is an empowered anomie turbocharged by selfishness, respecting some nominal “feel-good” principals of progress or collective technological striving,… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Amren smiled slightly- at me, at Varian. 'I watched them for so many eons. Humans- in my world, there were humans, too.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up-… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“If you can't get what you want from life, see if you're withholding something from someone else, because you won’t get what… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“You know I believe that all children should have pets if it can possibly be managed, she wrote. I feel it is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Yes! And isn't that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging through her like some helplessly mating… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness. So Dickens's wife and mistress had to suffer so… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“People, in all sorts and kinds.. They always want something from you. Whether it's lust, money, love or even friendship. Whether they… — Nesh Copy Share Image
“[email protected] Vikki's Reading List Vikki's Reading List Comments Share FileEditViewInsertFormatDataToolsAdd-onsHelpAccessibilityLast edit was 6 days ago 100% $%123 Arial 10 Selfishness is uncomfortable… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“fourth reason for this interpretation is seen in Paul’s purpose in this context. His purpose has been to persuade the Philippians that… — Wayne A. Grudem Copy Share Image
“Lovemaking takes time! It is a myth for lovemaking to be quick and smooth. To find pleasure in each other, both men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is rotten at every level, and yet it adds up to something extraordinarily useful for society over time. The paradox of… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“A foreign publisher of my first book [ The Selfish Gene ] confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
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