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• ...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's own salvation. To be blessed is not an end in itself; we must be a blessing to others. All people have a talent in one way or another to touch and inspire other people's lives. Let us not only look inward and proudly say 'all is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth' (2 Ne. 28:21), but let us be a light unto a chaotic world.

  Hans B. Ringger

  Spiritual, Blessed, Blessing

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• Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Jesus, Commitment, Thinking

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• The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Real, Pursuit Of Happiness, Thinking

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• Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Good Morning, Men, Christianity

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• Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

  Peter Birks

  Loyalty, Survival, Conflict

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• People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Drama, People, Feel Good

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• That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

  Maria Menounos

  Feel Good, Charity, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Love, Heart, Forever

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• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Children, Liars

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• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sympathy, Hunting, People

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• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Lying

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone.”

  Sara Maitland

  Lonely, Morning, People

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• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  Eric L. Haney

  War, Men, Brave

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• It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.

  Steven Landsburg

  Decision, Miracle, Outcomes

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• If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evil, Design, Tragedy

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• I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  Harry Belafonte

  Believe, Thinking, Views

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• But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Crush, Character, Watches

  "20Q: Joseph Gordon-Levitt". Interview with Stephen Rebello, www.playboy.com. August 15, 2012.

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• People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Children, Thinking, People

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• I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me, I’m a saint’ kind of way. It’s very selfish in a way. I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear.

  Ellen Page

  Giving, Drug, Acting

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• Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

  Paul Reiser

  Games, Two, People

  Paul Reiser (2011). “Couplehood”, p.186, Bantam

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• Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

  Sidney Poitier

  Insecure, Way, Weak

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• I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

  Ryan Gosling

  Good Man, Mentor, Would Be

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• We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Eagles, Order

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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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.

  Sarah Brightman

  Art, Way

  The Independent, 1997.

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• We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

  River Phoenix

  Cutting, Animal, Meat Eating

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