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24 quotesThe idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Gossip
Myrtle Barker
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Lovers
Elizabeth Bowen
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Parents and Parenting
Barbara Bush
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Motives
Lord Byron
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Sympathy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Glory
William Cowper
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
Trade
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Present
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
Bosses and Employees
John Gotti
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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
Selfishness
Hailliard
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Selfishness
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Sacrifice
Napoleon Hill
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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Selfishness
Doug Horton
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Sympathy
Leigh Hunt
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Desire
Lao-Tzu
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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Love
Nick Richardson
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Selfishness
Mme. Roland
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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
Work
George Bernard Shaw
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Husbands
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Self-expression
Barbara Streisand
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Selfishness
William M. Thackeray
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Loneliness
Tennessee Williams
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Caution
Woodrow T. Wilson
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Selfishness
Israel Zangwill
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun