If you do good even for selfish reasons, good will still come back to you.
The more conservative tragic view works within the understanding that humans generally are selfish.
Those of us born between 1946 and 1964 have been selfish, the argument goes.
Detractors said he was far too selfish, flamboyant and irresponsible to make consistent contributions.
Authenticity is not a skill that we can manipulate for our own selfish ends.
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My interest in seeing a good, tough, knowledgeable Commission mouthpiece in London is entirely selfish.
She then measures various metrics such as persistence at difficult tasks, self-reliance, and selfish inclinations.
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So speaking personally, from a purely selfish perspective, I want house prices to fall.
However, transforming the Tory image from selfish and mean to cuddly and green is not enough.
So selfish elements should be welcomed in such lineages if evolvability is a net benefit.
There was an account of psychology that was taken to show man as irredeemably selfish.
Think about times when you feel greedy or selfish or dismissive or downright mean.
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But from the point of view of the selfish genes themselves, there is no paradox.
One interpretation of all this might be that selfish people find it easier to become rich.
They serve others in a selfish effort to obtain the things that other people produce.
First, he thought it was to feel good, but then he decided that that was too selfish.
Members vow to be generous where once they had been selfish, faithful where treacherous, honest where deceitful.
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It shows he's not a selfish person because he didn't want the role for his own sake.
The teams said the capuchin were more likely to take food from helpful people than "selfish" ones.
They're less selfish about it, and they're taking more pleasure in being part of a larger group.
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Nor do we automatically hate the family or regard them as selfish and mendacious and so on.
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But iFixit's Kyle Wiens admits there is at least one selfish motive for breaking apart that iPhone.
"You can see we are dealing with selfish people, " said Edward Mburu, 38, who lives in Nairobi.
"I have to look at myself now and be selfish in what I want to do, " he said.
To hear some in Brussels, Germany is at best obsessed with monetary stability, at worst a selfish bully.
When Adam Smith argued that human beings are essentially selfish he was not wrong but only half right.
Plain and simple, it was selfish, and it turned the magic of gift giving into a financial transaction.
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Her visit to a smug, shallow man about to be knighted will radically change his selfish, well-ordered world.
We are a selfish species prone to temptations which trigger both activity (greed, pride) and inactivity (sloth, jealousy).
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Why is pulling your own load and expanding the proverbial pie considered selfish, yet burdening others thought justified?
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