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• Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Patriotic, Desire

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.

  Derek A. Cuthbert

  Cheating, Lying, Sin

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• Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

  Tom Stoppard

  Stupid, People, Noble

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Coast of Utopia Trilogy”, Faber & Faber

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• Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

  Liz Brixius

  Addiction, Drug, Drug Addict

  Source: deadline.com

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• Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Mean, Evil

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• Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

  Graham Greene

  Disappointment, Hate, Grief

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Ambition, Guarantees That

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• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  Candace Cameron

  Foundation, Honest, Communicate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

  Carol Burnett

  Kindness, Helping Others, Feel Good

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• And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

  Duane G. Carey

  Sight, Views, People

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• I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

  Jim Carrey

  Thinking, Sick, Going Away

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• A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

  Barbara Cartland

  Husband, Trying, Asking

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• Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

  Chris Christie

  Hurt, Sacrifice, People

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• I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mother, Jobs, Niece

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• We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

  Bryan Cranston

  Nice, Squash, Be Kind

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• I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.

  Sloane Crosley

  Running, Thinking, Squares

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.99, Portobello Books

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• The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

  Mark Cuban

  Smile, Jobs, Numbers

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• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sensual, Failing, Individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Expectations, Sake, Process

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• In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

  Pope Francis

  Taken, Men, Europe

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• Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Selfishness, Childlessness

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• I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

  Ashley Greene

  Going Away, Three, Months

  "Ashley Greene On The Pitfalls Of Dating In Hollywood" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 15, 2012.

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• It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

  Adrian Grenier

  Indulge In, Giving, True Happiness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

  Hugh Hefner

  People, Self Centered, Self

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. June 2002.

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