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Letter "S" » Selfishness
«The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.»
Author: Dr. Robert Anthony
| About:
Control,
Love,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
controls, least, loves, relationship
«Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/»
«There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.»
«The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Love,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
ceases, dispersing, introduced, introduces
«There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Greed,
Insecurity,
Jelousy,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
afraid, are, away, do away with, many, might, not, others, pick, picking up, pick at, pick out, pick over, that, Them, there, There are, things, throw, throwing away, thrown-away, throw away, throw in, throw out, throw up, were, would
«Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness»
«You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.»
«Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
and elsewhere, elsewhere, regard, Rest of the world, selfishness
«Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
aspiration, atheism, selfishness, unselfishness
«Two may keep counsel, putting one away»
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