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«Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life»
Author: James F. Byrnes
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
beautiful, Beautiful Life, friendship, interest, rare, self, self interest
«Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest»
«Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest»
«Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
amoral, autocrat, autocrats, consciously, immoral, perverse, projection, projections, reflects, savoring, savors, self interest
«I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.»
Author: Fidel Castro
| Keywords:
brightest, clings, deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, lighted, miserly, self interest, strong belief, The Flame, trifles
«By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Self-interest
| Keywords:
gregarious, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, remained, self interest, solitary, to a great extent
«Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.»
«Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Capitalism
| Keywords:
backed, capitalism, effective power, self interest
«If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
appeal, go after, grant, interest, leads, on request, practically, quickly, requested, requests, self interest
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing
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