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«The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Teenage,
Youth
| Keywords:
accused, exaggerating, immovability, impression, inertia, selfish, troubles
«Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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assertion, assertions, derives, deriving, earns, esteem, existence, expression, gains, mere, personal, Personal self, profoundly, response, seeks, selfish, self assertion, self esteem, values
«The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
family life, Great Society, idols, independence, in the midst, midst, selfish
«My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
absurd, ADD, cruel, infinitely, objection, selfish
«Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people?s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.»
«The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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ailment, clod, feverish, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, life force, mighty, recognized, scrap, scraps, selfish, thoroughly, thrown, worn, worn out
«This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making yo»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ailment, ailments, clod, complaining, devote, feverish, Force of Nature, grievance, grievances, mighty, recognized, selfish
«Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.»
«One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being.Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
addict, addicted, addicts, consideration, demonic, drinks, eating, intensely, intoxicate, intoxicates, intoxicating, leads, meat, meats, selfish, sensuous, with consideration
«The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain»
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