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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

  Selfish, Years, Drug

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• Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Success, Selfish, Community

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

  William H. Seward

  Party, Vices, Virtue

  william h. seward (1852). “speach in the senate”

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• We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, World, Spirit

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• But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Real, Men

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.423, Xist Publishing

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• Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Soul, Desire

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• The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Selfish, Winning

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Greed

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• The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

  Rowan Williams

  Humanity, Used, Resources

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• We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.

  Daniel Ortega

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Years, World

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• It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Couple, Birth Control

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• ... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become more masculine in thought and action; men more callous and reserved; both husband and wife become more careless of each other, and increasingly indifferent to the higher duties and joys of living.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Husband, Men

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• So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Evil, Weakness, Behavior

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2011). “Surviving a Shark Attack (On Land): Overcoming Betrayal and Dealing with Revenge”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

  William Nicholson

  Selfish, Here I Am, People

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• Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.

  Oren Lyons

  Children, Rivers, Greed

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• Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life and making it possible for a person to die for their sake. A person without aspirations is like a ship without a rudder or a horse without a bridle. Aspirations give consistent order to life.

  Mas Oyama

  Spiritual, Horse, Order

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• The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

  Tommy Douglas

  Home, Greed, Insecurity

  Tommy Douglas' remarks at the Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF in Regina, Canada, July 1951.

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• The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

  Samael Aun Weor

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

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• Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

  Stendhal

  Desert, Fool

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.331, Tyché

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• Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

  Donny Osmond

  America, Romance, Alive

  "Donny Osmond reveals secrets to his happy 32-year marriage". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

  John Hope Bryant

  Self, Arrogance, World

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• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

  Jason Reitman

  Childhood, Feelings, Skins

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  Norman Vincent Peale, Marjorie Holmes, Arthur Gordon, Will Rogers (1995). “To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts”, Dimensions for Living

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• What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Selfish, Men, Law

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.14, VM eBooks

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