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  One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

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• I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Opportunity, People, Generosity

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, War, Guilt

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1

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• In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

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• You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Acting

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 28, 2015

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• Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

  Ouida

  People, Wish, Energy

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.408, Ouida

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Happiness, Stupid, Intellectual

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

  Anita Brookner

  Ideas, Decision, World

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• I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

  Elton John

  Years, Drug, Sitting

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Literature

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

  Harry S. Truman

  Dog, Past, Differences

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• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

  Jane Austen

  Practice, Principles, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 58 (Mr Darcy)

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• Men tend to be selfish.

  Caprice Bourret

  Men, Being Selfish

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, I Am Sorry, Apologizing

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• An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  Clara Barton

  Evil, Suffering, Movement

  Clara Barton (1899). “The Red Cross in peace and war”

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• People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Children, People

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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

  People, Want, Consideration

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Want, Nostalgia

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• It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

  Thomas Szasz

  Easier, Duty, Ifs

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Acceptance, Boss, Would Be

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• I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

  Oscar Levant

  Book, Reading, Personality

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• I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Umpires, Attributes

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

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• It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Selfishness, Persons

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• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  Ralph Steadman

  Destroying Ourselves, Force, Knows

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