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«All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.»
«Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize their lives. They believe in freedom so fervently that they think it should be compulsory. They believe that the poor and ignorant are victims of an unfair system and that their circumstances can be improved if we give them help. Republicans (I think to myself) are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then»
Author: Andy Rooney
(Correspondent, Journalist, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquisitive, basically, compulsory, conservatives, Democrats, faced, fervently, give a damn, improved, Liberals, organize, Republicans, selfish, unfair, victims
«Do your duty, to the best of your abilities, for the Lord without any selfish motive, and remember God at all times - before starting a work, at the completion of a task, and while inactive.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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abilities, completion, inactive, motive, selfish, starting, work at
«As a Buddhist monk my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Buddhist, Buddhists, Buddhist monk, caused, concern, extended family, extends, inflict, members, monk, of their own, pursuit, selfish, sentient, sentient beings, The Monk, The Monks
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»
«Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Adulthood,
Affection
| Keywords:
adult, adults, Grown up, relatively, selfish
«Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
adopted, capitalism, do-nothing, economic, justified, motives, provides, selfish, The Express