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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

  Travel, Children, Kids

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• Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Team, Adversity

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• Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Games, Sometimes

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• A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Player, People

  "LeBron James Leads Miami Heat To NBA Title". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 22, 2012.

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• Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.75, RosettaBooks

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• Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Hands, Done

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• We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Guy, Problem

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Views, People

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  War, Nursing, Blood

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Garden, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us.

  Jennifer James

  Confused, Love You, Mean

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anatomy And Physiology, Astrology, Phrenology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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• We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Women, Insecure, Helping Others

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.135, Bantam

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• And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

  Veronica Roth

  Brave, Victory, Crave

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.65, HarperCollins UK

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• He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

  Josh Lanyon

  Horse, Greedy, Hung

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• Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Peacock

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Independent, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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• Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Passion, Love Is, Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas (1878). “The Three Musketeers”, p.83, ebookfreedom

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• The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Goal, Done

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• When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Winning, Facts

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• To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Love Is, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

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• When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.

  William Faulkner

  Blow, Thinking, Blood

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Rights, Law

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• There is no real happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Real, Giving, Real Happiness

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• Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Heart, Science, Greed

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