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I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Lao Tzu
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
Author:
William Taft
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
Author:
William Sumner
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
Author:
George Smith
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Author:
Adam Smith
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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
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Percy Shelley
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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Franklin Roosevelt
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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
Author:
James Polk
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Author:
Cesare Pavese
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The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
Author:
David McKay
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My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Author:
Hattie McDaniel
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The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
Author:
John Lewis
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
Author:
Mwai Kibaki
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
Author:
Alice James
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Author:
Edgar Howe
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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
Author:
John Gunther
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Author:
William Gladstone
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Author:
John Galbraith
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As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Author:
Rick Danko
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Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
Author:
John Comenius
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Author:
Charles Colton
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Author:
Richard Bach
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Author:
Jane Austen
