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Quotes Which Include `Selfishness`
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael
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Women
Men
Because
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de Balzac
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General
Thin
The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.
Greg Wise
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Family
Out
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
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You
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I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
Lynn Barber
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Freedom
You
Much
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Society
Man
Law
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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Man
Modern
Moral
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela
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Good
Family
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.
Rick Danko
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Get
Up
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
Peter Carey
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Courage
Me
About
The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
Theodor Mommsen
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One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.
Isabella Bird
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Women
Men
Independence
Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.
Max Stirner
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I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
Kristin Armstrong
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Power
Faith
Thankful
