"Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work."
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"One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves."
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"[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness."
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"Selfishness is blind."
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"Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness."
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"It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness."
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"We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness."
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"As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork."
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"Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God."
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"Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden."
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