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For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
Katherine Boo
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I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.
Carmelo Anthony
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That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.


Maria Menounos
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From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
Morarji Desai
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale
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If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.
Linda Blair
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.


Leigh Hunt
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A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
Leland Stanford
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.


Madame de Stael
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I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.


Philip Treacy
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.


Honore de Balzac
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The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.


Greg Wise
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.


Jane Austen
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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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Men tend to be selfish.


Caprice Bourret
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Peace Pilgrim
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
Patricia Heaton
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
Eddie Van Halen
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