By behaving with naked selfishness toward others, they poison the common realm and they force others to behave with naked selfishness toward them.
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It's some mix of selfishness, ambition, ego, desire and selflessness.
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Lastly, I was grateful for Issa's pure, undeniable twentysomething selfishness.
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For one thing, it makes selfishness a lot less defensible.
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In politics, you're either showing empathy or you're showing selfishness.
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We all need to adopt the philosophy of enlightened selfishness.
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Hannah will still be her friend, despite Marnie's breathtaking selfishness.
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If nothing else, we can rely on his selfishness. Good.
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Its characters are punished for their excesses, for their selfishness.
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The contrast between their selflessness and Trump's selfishness is jarring.
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That doesn't mean the deception and immense selfishness are acceptable.
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The atmosphere is bad, with a new selfishness, he said.
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The utter selfishness and egotism of this is astounding. pic.twitter.
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I have found contentment by withdrawing into a leisurely selfishness.
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They get enchained by their own selfishness, vanity and greed.
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Selfishness and deceit haven't disappeared, and bigger injustices still exist.
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Stop Selfishness From Ruining Your Relationship, there is no "correct" time.
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This is not about utopian corporate selflessness; it's about enlightened selfishness.
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Every character this season is finally confronting their own monstrous selfishness.
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When misused, monetary bonuses foster selfishness, backbiting, even cheating among employees.
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Anyway, what is solipsism in wartime but the selfishness of survival?
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Machiavelli and Hobbes gave us influential philosophies built on human selfishness.
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Elitism, ignorance and selfishness are always dangerous variables in political leadership.
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Because we are swayed by emotions like selfishness, anger and fear.
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Trump is also plagued with a self-destructive form of selfishness.
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Moyle's book reveals Turner's admirable audacity but also his unabashed selfishness.
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It asserts that selfishness is the sole driver of human affairs.
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The Definitive Guide to Business Selfishness is usually seen as negative.
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It's a tragedy caused by selfishness, bad decision-making, and terrible luck.
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So we have to just let go of the whole "selfishness" narrative.
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These traits would include selfishness, self-promotion, generally, a hard-driving profile.
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"That's when I felt the savageness of my own selfishness," he said.
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Rose McGowan to Bill Clinton : Lewinsky's life 'destroyed due to your selfishness.
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That's where McConnell, and his own brand of extreme selfishness, comes in.
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But you could base it on something low and steady like selfishness.
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He needs to outgrow his selfishness and acquire the resources of empathy.
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I'm hardly the first person to call out selfishness on the internet.
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The selfishness that drives the boys' father is rooted in credible pain.
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Selfishness, they understood, leads only to death: first social and ultimately biological.
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The Skeksis are meant to represent an allegorical form of pure selfishness.
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But the series isn't as certain of humanity's selfishness as all that.
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It's work that pushes back against the rising tide of selfishness and greed.
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The first is total selfishness—what we might call the George Costanza strategy.
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They all end up freezing to death as a result of their selfishness.
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Otherwise, their charm takes on a selfishness that makes interactions all about them.
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Hobbes and other philosophers argued that society is a machine driven by selfishness.
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THE SELFISHNESS OF OTHERSAn Essay on the Fear of NarcissismBy Kristin Dombek150 pp.
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So what is the case for mile-hoarding selfishness among the bigger carriers?
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Tragically, it's also this selfishness that ultimately costs the life of his uncle.
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Left to our own, we human beings have an impressive capacity for selfishness.
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"It's an act of vanity and selfishness that goes beyond comprehension," said Rep.
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And while I'm encouraging selfishness, I should encourage another kind of price-gouging.
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His self-absorption and his extreme selfishness are also typical of sex offenders.
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That is the new and baleful ideology of the elite: selfishness, bigotry and hate.
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We're all victims of a bigger system, which is [filled with] ignorance and selfishness.
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But this book's story of selfishness, pettiness, anger, and poor choices is comparatively predictable.
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The series tends to view caustic selfishness as a laughable side-effect of youth.
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Together, their selfishness in the first season led to the defeat of the Starks.
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"It kinda started from a place of selfishness, or just self-preservation," he says.
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They just linger like a bad odor, and it&aposs born from ambivalent selfishness.
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I do not have that kind of selfishness and hatefulness and depravity in me.
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Yet resolving political problems with love rather than selfishness is not a utopian ideal.
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It's one of the show's most sophisticated and most intricately filmed gags about selfishness.
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The retoric and selfishness of many in power has led to destruction and pain.
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Viewed this way, the battle was between rich people's idealism and poor people's selfishness.
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THE SELFISHNESS OF OTHERS: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, by Kristin Dombek.
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But there is definitely evidence of selfishness and temper tantrums in these Discord screenshots.
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We see Conner's arrogant selfishness, combined with his relentless naiveté, lead to his downfall.
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Just as people can be blinded by lust, they can be blinded by selfishness.
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Isn't he merely selfish, and doesn't his fatalism about life make that selfishness worse?
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In his wild, vicious, all-canceling selfishness, Trump is outsize and cartoonish and incomparable.
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Trump's willful selfishness, hatemongering, and lies, on the other hand, are very much intentional.
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It will exist regardless, because selfishness is such a profound force in driving people.
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Where Rust, DayZ, et al absolve stealing, murder and all forms of selfishness by insisting that, in dire circumstances, selfishness itself is a virtue, Survival implies that even the worst of times can be navigated with concomitant sense of responsibility to other people.
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His selfishness and outlook on life are so much clearer now that we have it.
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I used to find myself angered by it, the selfishness, the meaningless of it all.
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Watching this portrait of selfishness and greed, viewers may not be able to ignore them.
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Obviously, you have to put a little bit of that selfishness on the back burner.
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The Emperor's New Groove (2000) Cockiness and selfishness could get you turned into a llama.
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" "Selfishness and irresponsibility will be made clear to the world, crippling the country's world leadership.
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It sets a good example for our kids and discourages behaviors of selfishness and greed.
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Selfless acts often attract accusations of hidden selfishness, suggesting they're not really altruistic at all.
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Obviously, withdrawing an endorsement opens you up to charges of flip-flopping — and of selfishness.
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In contrast, young, single women make for sexy stories or examples of nanny-state selfishness.
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But I do not believe that this kind of behavior is some type of selfishness.
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It actually takes us from being human, connects us to becoming selfish, to exemplifying selfishness.
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It can highlight Dory's selfishness even as it portrays, with great care, her searing pain.
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There is a tattoo of Ayn Rand, the high prophet of selfishness, on his neck.
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Perhaps we built it right smack in the middle of goosedom, with typical human selfishness.
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Selfishness, aggression, and not having an open mind are going to continue plaguing the world.
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Powerful, selfish people have always adopted this dirty-minded realism to justify their own selfishness.
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Foremost, that includes her selfishness, the byproduct of a bout with a life-threatening condition.
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And our humanness and our level of selfishness is overtaking our chance to be great.
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Later, he touched on "righteous selfishness" that has led to the loss of wealth distribution.
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Sometimes this means taking responsibility for one's selfishness, lack of self-esteem, anxieties, or depression.
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I'll write what I think, but the selfishness, the self-regard, has it changed here?
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"Healthy democracies sometimes need to react against craziness and ugliness and selfishness and stupidity," said Garrett.
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He cannot hate them, for they are dumb in their selfishness, and only to be pitied.
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Stop Selfishness From Ruining Your Relationship, says there's a reason why it can feel so satisfying.
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It's this continued commitment and lack of selfishness that earned the dog recognition from City Hall.
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Wetterling, the heinous acts, the selfishness, are unforgivable for what I have taken away from you.
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Neptune says to put your selfishness on the back burner and turn your compassion into action.
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The problem with the economic interpretation, however, is that it tends to conflate elitism with selfishness.
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It's fair, I think, to say that we live in an age of hitherto unimagined selfishness.
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And while some male candidates are called "too ambitious," women's ambitions are often conflated with selfishness.
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This story is one of deception, exclusion and selfishness playing out at the company's highest levels.
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In real life, the push of selfishness is matched by the pull of empathy and altruism.
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Are you "preoccupied with fantasies that the world is ending because of the selfishness of others"?
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"The Selfishness of Others" rejects the rush and sweep of feeling for something measured and resilient.
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I don't remember anything beyond that number, which is a testament to the selfishness of writers.
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I think we encouraged selfishness and ignorance of the government when we discontinued the military draft.
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Throw in booze, and you've got a recipe for all kinds of selfishness, ugliness and depredation.
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It's a continuing process that involves balancing contradictory impulses like independence and interdependence, selfishness and selflessness.
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Once again, the human goodness that guided Dickens' tale is exchanged for human greed and selfishness.
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"The Fountainhead" similarly explores topics of "rational selfishness, " an ideology that later became known as objectivism.
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Social scientists tell us that selfishness is natural, people are motivated by money, power and status.
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It's impressive, and, on this roster, will unleash itself beneath a dark cloud of necessary selfishness.
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At Senate luncheons on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican lawmakers vented about Mr. Kasich's intransigence, calling it selfishness.
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It's shameful how we operate today in a two party system in which corruption and selfishness abound.
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But in a good marriage you identify your own selfishness and see it as the fundamental problem.
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It should be clear that this personalized kind of activism is not selfishness or express-myself immaturity.
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Men your age are operating at peak selfishness, making this the perfect occasion to explore your sexuality.
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This selfishness comes from many years of having sexual encounters with men who rarely ate me out.
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Despots love to stoke selfishness among their subjects, he went on, because it usefully divides the masses.
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With the proverbial, well-earned reputation of artists for laziness, greed, selfishness, nastiness, irrelevance, fecklessness, and fickleness.
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But relationships only thrive when each partner sees his or her own selfishness as the key problem.
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But to many, Rand's philosophy of "rational selfishness" seemed as harsh and limited as the Russians' materialism.
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If you'll forgive me for saying so, the U.S. system has a sense of selfishness to it.
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His cruelty, selfishness and shortsightedness are somehow inseparable from his loyalty, his steadfastness and his existential courage.
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If you don't know what your goal is, then every setback sends you into cynicism and selfishness.
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Stop Selfishness From Ruining Your Relationship, the disconnect between the political and the personal is quite common.
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With every act of selfishness, nations like Denmark are rendering the promise of the refugee convention increasingly hollow.
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But in a moment of pure selfishness and vulnerability, I shook my head, tears spilling into my lap.
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There's far too much selfishness and greed, especially from a president who is Robespierre with a comb-over.
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"We are all a mixture of selfishness and generosity, loyalty and self-preservation, pragmatism and impulsiveness," she writes.
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Had his devotion later been an inducement to remain with him in his house, a selfishness dressed up?
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There's something reptilian in Lasdun's gaze, a coldblooded interest in furtiveness, in the lithe selfishness of the genteel.
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Kristin Dombek, in "The Selfishness of Others," also warns of another, more subtle menace: the fear of narcissism.
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But the movie was compelling nonetheless: A character known for his selfishness sacrifices himself to save the universe.
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George is admirably warm as the earthbound Hazel, and Dorff suggests the selfishness of his character's selfless desperation.
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Some use their public position to dissolve it so they can have an open space for their selfishness.
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Best of all — or worst, depending on your selfishness — the authorities also got rid of the entrance fees.
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The hubris of man — it is specifically men — and humanity's rapacious consumption and selfishness are all laid bare.
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Stark's weakness isn't kryptonite or some kind of superhuman ailment, but rather his own arrogance, stubbornness, and selfishness.
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And, like Noah, it's about humans' proclivity to wreck anything good with their own unfettered desires and selfishness.
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Towards the end of our conversation, he mentions sometimes his passion can be misconstrued as a selfishness, or vanity.
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Here is the truth of it: a human life was altered & destroyed due to your selfishness. Because. You. Could.
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Empathy is usually touted as a virtue, the root of kindness and charity, a way to transcend our selfishness.
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Second, the conventions that buttress the constitution's limits on the president have fallen victim to Mr Trump's careless selfishness.
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But does it make up for all his coming years of selfishness and lack of participation in our society?
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What do you think about that selfishness idea, and where and how we fit in caring about our looks?
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"Putting aside vanities and selfishness, practicing honesty, industriousness and decency, we will also be contributing to GDP," he said.
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Scream "gimme gimme this gimme gimme thaaaaaaaaaaaaat" as you embrace your vanity, your selfishness, your unquenchable thirst for things.
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With so much corruption, disaffection and selfishness among the Patriots, it is amazing that the Revolution was finally successful.
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By assuming that people are selfish, by prioritizing arrangements based on selfishness, we have encouraged selfish frames of mind.
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Others, like "The Hatred of Poetry" and "The Selfishness of Others," advance something as old-fashioned as an argument.
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The difference between being selfish and being egocentric Selfishness is being concerned with one's own outcomes and disregarding others'.
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But the politicized sectors of conservative evangelicalism have been associated with bigotry, selfishness and deception for a long time.
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His selfishness has led to a level of civil discord and political acrimony not seen since the late 1960s.
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Still, you might want to take your time before you jump — not out of loyalty, but out of selfishness.
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When you are fighting a repulsive foe, the ends justify any means and serve as rationale for any selfishness.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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Say what you will about Bryant's efficiency or selfishness, but the guy had textbook footwork and fundamentals on offense.
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The lesson worth learning now is that some people rightfully turn away from tragedy out of self-preservation, not selfishness.
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While Bran doesn't have an agenda, he's equally unable to entertain anger or selfishness as he is sympathy or empathy.
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What if someone created a 12-step program for selfishness, a course of action for turning egocentrism on its head?
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Narcissist Personality Disorder (NPD) is a clinical condition that is characterized by extreme selfishness and an excessive need for admiration.
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Bergdahl's ideological agenda, his selfishness and his actions led to soldiers being wounded and killed as they searched for him.
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In the book, you say that the "new American self" is torn between individualism and community, between selfishness and sociability.
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The episode ends with her leaving him on the doorstep of Meredith's house, another person hurt by someone else's selfishness.
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Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) and Dan Egan (Reid Scott) are both back, romantic tension and selfishness personified in full force.
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Because even though his anger and selfishness makes him a dork on Twitter, Kylo Ren is arguably the ultimate Sith.
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His anger reflects badly on him—when it clearly betrays selfishness—but it's not edited for the ring of objectivity.
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So I went into the conference room, set up my private ice cream sundae party, and basked in the selfishness.
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We move the ball and we know who has a good look and there's not selfishness in the shot selection.
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Catholicism responded in kind: Papal encyclicals denounced liberalism as a pestilence and an evil, mired in selfishness, materialism, and unbelief.
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After all, your own selfishness is the only one you can really control, the only one you have responsibility for.
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There's a toxic, tricky appeal in seeing a powerful woman compromised by her flaws: her selfishness, her failure to nurture.
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"The ideology serves as a suit of armor," Mr. Norris said, conveniently vindicating Jim's selfishness but never challenging his privilege.
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It was a Vietnamese tragedy enabled by America — by American firepower, misguided foreign policy, ignorance, greed, selfishness, racism and duplicity.
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The scientific evidence that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are obvious.
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But instead of always being the caretaker, it's time to dip your anxious toes into the kiddie pool of selfishness.
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Gently allusive and perfectly titled, "Hunter Gatherer" is clear about Ashley's selfishness and scam-filled past, but never condemns him.
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I wondered whether it had occurred to him that he had essentially devised a tortuous work-around for human selfishness.
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That's when I left for North America, despite overwhelming criticism and accusations of selfishness from my family members and friends.
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He meant that the whole world was watching and by their selfishness and failings the colonists were screwing it up.
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We are unnerved by maternal ugliness and malice and selfishness that can't be entirely justified or — even worse — satisfyingly resolved.
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I will say only that it has to do with selfishness in both its ordinary and also its existential varieties.
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Persona 5 makes an argument for a form of selfishness that the other games said had to be heavily managed.
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She believes in humanity's potential to overcome hatred and selfishness, in the possibility of the better future in which Kirk lives.
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But these days, the need for remedies that can decrease selfishness and maximize empathy and kindness is more urgent than ever.
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Rational me knows this, but there's this primal selfishness that makes me want to be with her all of the time.
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She's forsaken ballet because she believes that her dancing — and her selfishness about her audition — is responsible for her mother's death.
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Kristin Dombek's The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism is now out from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
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"It's all fear-based, and it's frankly based upon selfishness," Bundy said of the rhetoric from the president and his supporters.
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It's a final act of selfishness for Duque — and once again in this episode, a child is powerless to stop it.
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Advised by the Almighty to go into business for himself, Codman inaugurates his own religion, founded on a philosophy of selfishness.
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It's not selfishness on their part; it's just unclear to them that the benefits to them are worth the additional costs.
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I'd like to encourage him to put aside his feelings for one day and not let selfishness ruin her big day.
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More likely, it will require just the right amount of well-timed selfishness, and another dominant LeBron performance in the Finals.
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Opinion The Great Alaska Earthquake of 260 surprised everyone by showing that natural disasters can bring out more kindness than selfishness.
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She resists a characterization of Lynch as any sort of lothario, and says his roving affection was never based in selfishness.
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A Forbes article from 2003 characterizes the seminars as an Ayn Rand-inspired glorification of selfishness: Days begin at 8 a.m.
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But perhaps that's my selfishness speaking, in that I crave Robertson's take on the objects and tensions of my own life.
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The doctor, an infectious disease expert, argued that, while the coronavirus will be bad, people's selfishness could make it far worse.
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That you live the way do while homelessness persists indicates a level of insincerity and selfishness that is hard to comprehend.
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In a 2003 ESPN interview, Bryant called O'Neal "fat and out of shape" and said he had "childlike selfishness and jealousy."
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Intentional or not, Amy seems like a determined, ambitious person, but only ever harnesses those admirable qualities in forms of selfishness.
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But relief for Syria's surviving war victims is readily available if the insecurity, selfishness and racism of isolationists can be addressed.
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The show doesn't have any easy answers or prescriptive redemption paths in the destructive wake of depression, selfishness, and substance abuse.
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I don't want to confront her for what I see as selfishness because I fear saying something that I may regret.
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Most religions and moral systems have aimed for self-quieting and self-transcendence, figuring that the great human problem is selfishness.
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"Behind new threats show through the same old monstrous features: selfishness and intolerance, aggressive nationalism and claims to exceptionalness," he said.
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Kristin Dombek Farrar, Straus and Giroux "We know the new selfishness when we see it," writes Kristin Dombek in her first book, The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, where she seeks to understand whether—as countless psychologists, journalists, bloggers, and others have proclaimed—we are living through an epidemic of self-worship.
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That finding was expected, the researchers said, but they weren't anticipating that loneliness would actually contribute to selfishness in a feedback loop.
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Cars are inherently about projecting a self-image, and hundreds of thousands of Americans chose to project one of profound, pathological selfishness.
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Toodles, Anonymous The note says a lot about New York City, with its unique mix of kindness, concern and hybrid selflessness/selfishness.
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But to focus on Ethan and Sam's cheating exclusively is to ignore Lisa's many poor choices and, worst of all, her selfishness.
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Harry and Meghan are choosing love, and their choice, like that of every married couple, is an embrace of sacrifice over selfishness.
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She may just need the aesthetic to feel personally empowered — and assuming that doesn't slip over into selfishness, it's a beautiful thing.
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I hurt, emotionally manipulated, and wrong [sic ]every one of those accusers due to my own selfishness, thoughtlessness, and need for validation.
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She would start to give them less and herself more: By draining her, they created in her a new capacity for selfishness.
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I decided to leave crime behind because I realized the selfishness of my attitude while I was incarcerated in Jamaica for manslaughter.
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What happens if we let the psychological language go, and the moral language, without labeling it "selfishness" or "vanity" or, especially, "pathology"?
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All the while, he was guided by the heroic entrepreneurial creed of Ayn Rand, a champion of unalloyed selfishness and remorseless capitalism.
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They are the winners in these elections that so many considered a further example of the futility and selfishness of their politicians.
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He sensed that his feelings were unreasonable and he struggled to dismiss them, disliking himself for what seemed to be a selfishness.
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Just thinking of yourself, because if you're going to please the other person and she's going to please you then – yeah, selfishness.
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"There's something reptilian in Lasdun's gaze, a coldblooded interest in furtiveness, in the lithe selfishness of the genteel," Charles Finch wrote here.
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Slavery is about a deeply rooted racism, and even deeper selfishness that dominated and continues to dominate the hearts of American people.
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But erasing, I have learned, does not stop with a new language, and that, my friend, is my sorrow and my selfishness.
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They don't like technology, selfishness, drugs, or being labeled a cult (which they described as "something akin to the Salem Witch Trials").
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Be smart about what (and who) you invest your time in, don't spend (financially or emotionally!) from a place of insecurity or selfishness.
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" And the state-owned Global Times said Trump's "selfishness and irresponsibility will be made clear to the world, crippling the country's world leadership.
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" He added, "In a world full of craziness & selfishness, I like to have hope that the good people will always find each other.
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In those cases what I found was that selfishness plays a big role, and in fact, a role that I hadn't previously considered.
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The driving force of The Selfishness of Others is the way in which Dombek carefully dissects the anatomy of this particular moral panic.
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When not acting out of compassion, people act out of selfishness about what is best for them, not the animals, Ms. Uhler said.
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When we build academic disciplines and social institutions upon suppositions of selfishness we're missing the motivations that drive people much of the time.
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To me this illustrates that the selfishness of one individual prosecutor in a position of power could lead to the death of innocents.
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Treat yo'self I can't personally relate to this problem because I have a greater tendency toward selfishness (which I'm working on) than selflessness.
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My twin dictums of selfishness and scarcity have turned me into a person who believes that the world is mine and mine alone.
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Staggering between corny conventionality and zesty, upbeat weirdness, "Don't Worry" never fully acknowledges the cruelty and selfishness required to sustain a longtime habit.
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Perhaps we've dipped a toe in the younger male waters and been burned by the sleeveless shirts, the sheetless beds, the unbridled selfishness.
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" Further polling shows that many people perceive socialism as a more "generous" basis for government and conversely associate capitalism with "greed" and "selfishness.
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Sure, he reads a lot of books and, as an observer of people, is pretty deft at manipulating the fundamental selfishness of others.
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Acknowledging that your blindness, selfishness and fear compelled you to buy into a man who is selling you out may take more time.
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The temptation is to write Debbie's response off to resentment (Debbie's ex-husband cheated on her with Ruth), selfishness, naïveté or internalized sexism.
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We found that choosers were much more likely to trust signalers who had punished selfishness, earning these signalers extra cash in the long run.
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But they're wasted on a character who feels irredeemable, and whose selfishness in these early episodes once again leads to a completely avoidable death.
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Kranz navigates Sam's simultaneous innocence and dangerous selfishness nicely, and his clear consternation at the situation is one of the film's better comic elements.
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Instead, it's content to focus on the theme of healthy selfishness indicated by its title, which in this case includes the right to die.
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Even one of the greatest nights of his life will be remembered both for its brilliance and for the selfishness required to achieve it.
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It's up to you whether to decide to accept this and move on or end the friendship on account of their colossal selfishness. Also?
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The lovely drama Little Men is a small-scale tragedy populated by perfectly well intentioned people who are willfully blind to their own selfishness.
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" Being a model means two days of training (first, the runway, then editorial), a certain sense of selfishness, and "sex, drugs, rock and roll.
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Transitioning from a passive doormat into a confident human being comes with growing pains, and for Annie, confidence more than once blurs into selfishness.
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He's a really good guy, and I fear that his potential for finding true love with someone else is being thwarted by her selfishness.
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Rabbi Sacks, much like the Vatican, believes that materialism and secularism in liberal democracies have prompted selfishness, promoted human arrogance and undermined family values.
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Rand was most successful as a fantasist and "propagandist," Duggan writes, who provided "templates, plot lines and characters" that gave selfishness an alluring sheen.
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Contrary to such self-satisfying forces, whatever their reasonable catalysts, John Marston just wants his family back, his sole selfishness to be left alone.
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But I'm aware that I could be modeling selfishness to my kids if I don't strike the right balance between self-care and selfish.
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Hamas clerics and politicians at the rear dispatching women and teenagers to the Israeli border to precipitate an armed conflict personifies cowardice and selfishness.
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But I also noticed times when I mistook benevolence for selfishness, times when my motive was all about avoiding a difficult, but necessary, conversation.
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Dell Canright, a marriage counselor who runs Christian Counseling in Mansfield, Texas, has found that, sometimes, the love languages can encourage selfishness between couples.
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Singing with earnest clarity, Father John Misty indicts selfishness, ignorance, distraction, vanity, politics, self-delusion, dogmatism, technocracy, God and, by no means least, himself.
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My parents got me to first base before I was born, immigrating to the US. This took courage, desire, and a dose of selfishness.
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This limitation may be most manifest in O'Connell's failure to mention one of the most disturbing aspects of this immortality mania: its utter selfishness.
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If organisms compete for resources, then a strategy of cooperation will be more successful in the long run than a strategy of pure selfishness.
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But Mr. Payne is a canny student of modern American culture and in particular of the ways his fellow citizens conflate selfishness and virtue.
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Pushing forward while falling back, hating yourself while despising your selfishness—this hero is beyond tormented, and BEASTMODE 2 wouldn't succeed any other way.
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At the same time, the play scrambles our notions of sacrifice and selfishness, as they apply to the cherished perception of women as caregivers.
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But we've also lost a lot of our community since these tablets got here, as if a blanket of selfishness has descended upon us.
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And so in a way the only person who is ever going to love them is themselves, so there can be a selfishness in that.
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The elitists gussy up defense of their personal financial gain in the garb of morality and principle, but in the end it's just pure selfishness.
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There was a tremendous and immediate feeling of selfishness when I was injured this second time and lost nearly half the blood in my body.
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For too long, it feels as though the show doesn't realize that his selfishness isn't all that interesting, let alone some charming rite of passage.
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Rendering the leaders of the four major political parties as children, the cartoon narrated how "the selfishness of small politicians" was bringing sadness to Niñolandia.
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"If not for her selfishness and direct contribution to David Sweat and Richard Matt, they would have not escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility," Wylie said.
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The second half tears it apart slowly and painfully, emphasizing Tom's helplessness and Isabel's pitiless selfishness, which is starting to look like Cianfrance's favorite theme.
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Last year he said newcomers should be welcomed with dignity and denounced the "populist rhetoric" he said was fuelling fear and selfishness in rich countries.
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You start to root for Eleanor, despite her selfishness; for Chidi, despite his dallying; for Tahani, despite her narcissism; and for Jason, despite his folly.
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But critics of the hashtag denounced the lack of inclusion of other minorities in the push for equality, calling it an example of racial selfishness.
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In Search Party's second season especially, the selfishness at the core of how the four main characters function was spotlighted and challenged more than ever.
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It wasn't an act of selfishness but an extraordinary gift to everyone who believes that the limit of human achievement is far from being reached.
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The choices they face are often between selfishness and solidarity, between the brute demands of survival and the pull of deeper but less tangible obligations.
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While the neo-Hobbesians struggle to explain how human altruism can exist, other scientists question their premise, asking if there's any functional utility to selfishness.
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You have become a man ruled by selfish and perverted desires, a man defined by his daily choices repeatedly to feed that selfishness and perversion.
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The distinction between giving and receiving, altruism and selfishness faded away because in giving to the unit you are giving to a piece of yourself.
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Its fingerpicking folk-rock unfurls from a blurry awakening — "First things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep" — to unabashed pride and joy.
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" But, he continued, "In a historic moment in Italy in which a political agenda of selfishness and closure is prevailing, some encouraging signals are there.
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Critics of Rand say that her philosophy is a nothing more than an elaborate exercise designed to put an intellectual gloss on a base impulse: selfishness.
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The first two seasons of You're the Worst managed to bring enough depth to Jimmy, Gretchen, and Lindsay that their consistent selfishness wasn't a deal breaker.
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Read these stories next: Why I Embrace Selfishness In Motherhood How Friendships Change After Having A Kid The Postpartum Sex Issue We Need To Talk About
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Life imitates art and vice versa, and in reality those who justify their selfishness (and worse) in the name of art tend to be men too.
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Conway told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC360" that Democrats should not blame FBI director James Comey for their predicament, rather the selfishness of Clinton and Weiner.
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We cannot become successful or happy if we ignore the true reality of modern science and spirituality and direct our efforts to replace selfishness with selflessness.
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Economic games have a long history in behavioral economics and evolutionary biology, where they have helped debunk assumptions of human selfishness with evidence for our altruism.
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It's his childish selfishness, his determination to control other people to take his mind off the fact that he has no control over the larger world.
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The author and racing historian Doug Nye, who has also written about Seaman, says that he possessed, "a degree of selfishness, self-interest and self-obsession".
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As a drama about adult responsibility, selfishness and moral obligations, however, it never wavers in its commitment to examine what it means to raise a child.
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At its loftiest, their profound seclusion suggests that they're spiritual and philosophical heirs to an isolationist like Henry Thoreau; at worst, it suggests fanaticism, cultishness, selfishness.
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So people in decent societies agree on a million informal restraints — codes of politeness, humility and mutual respect that girdle selfishness and steer us toward reconciliation.
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When it comes to school choice, however, there are always the naysayers whose arguments continue to manifest a selfishness and vacuity that is all too familiar.
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One possible interpretation: "It's not that you become more selfish, but you become more likely to translate selfishness into political action," Mr. Hall said of homeowners.
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If there's a stereotype here, its the Earth mother/healer, but Zhann is also capable of terrifying violence and incredible acts of both selfishness and selflessness.
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Yet admirers of this creator of fat, hyperventilating novels, which extolled "the virtue of selfishness" and the capitalist superhero, have filled conservative power lists for decades.
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Perhaps it's a function of my own deep selfishness, both emotional and biological, that I want my children to bury me, not the other way around.
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My choice is not rooted in selfishness as I once thought, nor a fear of losing my figure, or a puerile attachment to a contrarian view.
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A deeper cultural crisis — selfishness, excessive political correctness and a lack of civic responsibility — has infected the country's political and economic institutions, which must be purged.
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After all, these women don't forge ties with their bodies or their hearts; on the contrary, they sever them through selfishness and, at last, through murder.
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Acuña also points to a "deep selfishness" among the middle and upper classes that translates into an "I don't care" attitude to environmental and social issues.
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Tune in for a few minutes and you might see Bell making a joke about her own selfishness, or her love for all-you-can-eat shrimp.
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Given the corgis' rapport with everyone else, this seems less like an act of selfishness than simply understanding they would've been shot on site without her around.
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Maybe your friend lives in New York City and now, thanks to a mix of selfishness and carelessness, there are subway germs now multiplying in Bae's vagina.
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In a recent The New York Times op-ed, writer Jessica Grose argues that this data indicates not a sign of millennial selfishness, but one of selflessness.
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Chidi, Jason, and Tahani all start to care about each other and shed some of the selfishness, which, at bottom, is the essential sin all four share.
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Just remember that signs of selfishness could also be inexperience or insecurity, so make sure to talk to your partner before you kick them to the curb.
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That spirit also includes a commitment to solidarity, to not giving in to the selfishness and abusiveness for which solitary genius can be used as an excuse.
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After six years with little progress, the optimist in me wanted to see some change — a movement, a brief flash of empathy, something other than abject selfishness.
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The romantic fantasy musical, which perfectly explores the concept of selfishness, greed and falling in love with an anthropomorphic buffalo, is set to hit theaters March 17.
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"This group selfishness is going too far, and (those striking) will not be able to avoid the blame of the public," said Yoo in his opening speech.
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And remember that opting not to incorporate as a benefit corporation doesn't mean your business must by default espouse greed, selfishness and wanton destruction of natural resources.
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You learn to deal with people in their generosity and shortcomings; you learn to deal with them in their warmth and their selfishness, their humor and annoyances.
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"Somebody is train surfing because they want some kind of excitement out of it, but the impact on others because of that selfishness is huge," he says.
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The selfishness or sort of underlying narcissism that lives in all of us to a certain extent seems so magnified in people that try to make things.
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In a wonderful twist of fate, my job is to help people solve problems, so my intellectual selfishness can come into full form while keeping me employed.
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That, anyway, is what Milosz, and Roth, felt, and they make the selfishness at the heart of a writer's life sound like the glorious liberation it is.
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Later, at her apartment with Lucca, Maia opens the door and realizes the depths of Henry's selfishness and his instinct for self-preservation, traits she never inherited.
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Putin said that despite calls to cooperate on global issues, the United States had demonstrated a "selfishness" that had seen Russia's national interests ignored in the nuclear sphere.
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Let's not take that away from them too…they will have their hands full with all the horrific problems we've left them because of our selfishness and greed.
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Our giving to those that lack privilege and opportunity needs to reflect our willingness to sacrifice for one another rather than our selfishness and condemnation of other's choices.
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The weight of doing right by this child in ways you maybe never realized before: fighting for his or her best interests, without ill intentions, selfishness or greed.
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His feats of activism and sacrifice run parallel to blind selfishness: he has always depended on others, particularly women, to do everything for him, even clipping his nails.
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"I based Jerry Horne on Ayn Rand, 'Atlas Shrugged' — this idea of the virtue of selfishness — and the National Enquirer version of the Kennedy brothers," Mr. Kelly said.
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There are times, for a journalist, when one of the great pleasures of the job — alerting people to the existence of a cherishable thing — smacks up against selfishness.
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One is, as with the Netflix pieces, it's a frustration with a narrative that I think is wrong and I have the selfishness to want to correct it.
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At that point, social distancing would go back to being an act of selfishness, rather than one of care; now abetted and encouraged by for-profit tech companies.
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In March 1982, Palmer decried the ungentlemanly behavior and selfishness of some of the Tour's top players in a missive to Deane Beman, then the PGA Tour commissioner.
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Signs began to surface of not just edginess but anger, not just finger-pointing or protecting one's own interests but active selfishness in the face of general calamity.
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"I know that a 'good' girl is supposed to be kind, enabling of others, nice — not expressing all those natural human emotions of anger and selfishness," she wrote.
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Everyone in the show had some kind of personal Achilles' heel — for Eleanor it was selfishness, for Chidi it was indecision and for Tahani it was glory-seeking.
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At the heart of Trumpism is the perception that the world is a dark, savage place, and therefore ruthlessness, selfishness and callousness are required to survive in it.
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But NASA was and is an organization beyond political wrangling, their mission so pure and quixotic that you wonder why our own selfishness allowed it to exist at all.
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Why abortion opponents latched on to Dunham's comments is obvious: Abortion, in their view, is an evil thing, usually done out of ignorant female desperation or wicked female selfishness.
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Much of the conflict that drives both Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp would be null and void if not for Hank's selfishness and disregard for others.
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Prayer may deliver comfort in this awful moment, but we aren't going to love away the hate and selfishness that fills those who commit such atrocities nor their apologists.
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Yeah, and it frees my creative selfishness so that I can be Dave's tool for his record, for his solo record that happens to be called The Foo Fighters.
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Ms Hanawalt watched a documentary about toucans and was amused by the selfishness of the bird, which uses its long beak to steal and eat eggs from other nests.
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"You do not like Europe," he told Britons, blaming them for Europe's failures and accusing them of selfishness and an obsession with trade over the project for political unity.
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Opponents won't ever worry about him as they do Korver or Smith, but Crowder can still make himself useful by splashing a little bit of selfishness into his game.
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No liberal polity could survive on the basis of individualism, which the French theorist, Alexis Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," said was just a modern word for selfishness.
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Mr. Sachs holds the adults at arm's length, declining either to judge them too harshly for their selfishness or to extend them more than minimal sympathy for their difficulties.
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They are loyal to him because he made them in his image, and that image is one of narcissism, selfishness, and (in at least Don Jr.'s case) bigotry.
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No matter who you are and where you come from, there's a level of selfishness when you're young because there's no one else for you to look out for.
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In "The Meaning of Marriage," Tim and Kathy Keller emphasize that in any bad relationship the natural tendency is to see the other person's selfishness as the key problem.
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The peerless "Finishing the Hat," from "Sunday," mixes the exhilaration that comes from the quest for perfection and the painful knowledge of the selfishness and sacrifices that it requires.
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My partner and I had, in our selfishness, doomed our daughter to life on a dystopian planet, and I could see no way to shield her from the future.
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"Whether through a lack of knowledge or just my own selfishness, I never gave her the opportunity to be rescued, and I have to live with that," he said.
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Ferrell's protagonists might have registered as endearing buffoons, but their tendencies toward ignorance, selfishness, sexism, racism and/or jingoism were among the ways that McKay signaled mordant satirical intentions.
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If Noctis gets too far away, Gladio calls him out for his perceived selfishness… though he also makes no move to help Ignis whatsoever, either, leaving that to Prompto.
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Or instead will it prove to be the beginning of the end of the abuse of power, dishonesty, divisiveness and selfishness that have typified the era of Donald Trump?
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And in part, it's true, because abortion has a stigma—a stigma I don't believe should exist but am not entirely immune to, an aura of selfishness or callousness.
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Fleabag's selfishness causes real pain -- to her lovers, to her widowed father and eventually (season one spoiler!) to the best friend she turns out to have driven toward suicide.
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Yet, when we scrutinize the forces that contributed to the early ejections of top White House officials, who happened to all be men, we find childish feuds and selfishness.
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But sex scandals are often less about sex than the sins surrounding the sex: the lies, the selfishness, politicians' belief that they can get away with what other people can't.
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This flying saucer motif symbolizes the American Dream, as represented through her father's unrealized creation — not only its charm, innocence, and ongoing appeal, but also its narcissism, selfishness, and unreachability.
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Research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin journal makes the case that while loneliness does motivate us to find connections with other people, it also can heighten selfishness.
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For example, "Us vs Them" by Ian Bremmer and "WTF" by Robert Peston found the answer in the travails of former industrial towns and the arrogance and selfishness of elites.
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Quite neatly, this demonstrates that the selfishness of capitalists is constrained by competition and how the main problems emerge when insiders extract rents through monopolies or the exploitation of regulations.
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You keep wanting the film to run with the metaphor, to have these two jerks run obliviously rampant until they are called out for their selfishness, but it never does.
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While Narcissa Malroy's selfishness typically comes from a need for self-preservation and a desire to fulfil her own interests, it's the reason that she serves and later betrays Voldemort.
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Perhaps, she suggests, that selfishness is built into this particular crisis seizing these particular people in their particular era—an era that wallows in the aftermath of dashed collective hope.
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Rand's disquisitions on the "virtue of selfishness" and unbridled capitalism are admired by many American politicians and economists—Paul Ryan, Tillerson, Mike Pompeo, Andrew Puzder, and Donald Trump, among them.
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I fail to see how enacting something like this is any different from just being evil, and I'm bothered by the myopic selfishness of this technique for buttressing self-control.
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"There can be no moral justification for this behaviour beyond the discredited neoliberal dogma that if everyone maximizes their selfishness, the world will somehow be a better place," Hanauer writes.
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Kristin Dombek's The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism is a thoughtful and often hilarious inquiry of the supposed rise of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder.
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The implication here is that in the face of having to make personal sacrifices to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, the high earners revert to selfishness.
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Dombek does not explicitly discuss politics, but it's hard not to think that, at the end of this hot, depressing, almost apocalyptic summer, The Selfishness of Others might be particularly useful.
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In that context, cracking down on evasion makes some logical sense, though perhaps only if you believe those who evade fares simply choose not to pay out of selfishness, or worse.
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She does so by telling Hannah that Ray broke up with her, but instead of the sympathy she thought she was going to get, Hannah rightfully clocks her for her selfishness.
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Something bigger than Marnie's (Allison Williams) contour disaster, or Hannah's (Lena Dunham) unsurprising selfishness, or even that make-out session between Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Adam (Adam Driver) between cigarette puffs.
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Indeed, both Totono and Doki Doki Literature Club build sympathy for their antagonists, in an effort to give weight to the selfishness of the player actions that drove them to violence.
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That he not only didn't do that but also apparently didn't inform anyone that he was interacting with that he could well have the disease is an act of profound selfishness.
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As Mr. Sanzaro points out, accusations of selfishness usually do not come from climbers' family and friends; it is only in the world of non-climbers that there is any controversy.
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Where some futurists might see the potential for immortality or richly augmented brains, "Black Mirror" sees the opportunity for people to commit their usual cruelty and selfishness, creatively and in perpetuity.
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I beg our congressmen and women to put their selfishness aside and try to come to some sort of compromise to prevent the further proliferation of guns and future mass murders.
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More daringly, Ava — the character we are meant to feel closest to — is not only an expounder of theories of Darwinian selfishness; she also embodies them in the choices she makes.
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But I think this whole situation with The Simpsons and Apu offers a perfect illustration of how our frequently subconscious selfishness can infect what would otherwise be a nuanced, healthy discussion.
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In one experiment, 51 students who had not eaten in 14 hours participated in so-called cooperation games, which digitally simulated joint investment decisions and rated the selfishness of those decisions.
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But both versions of "The Square" practice an aesthetics of shaming, laying bare the hypocrisy, the selfishness and the wishful thinking embedded in the deep structures of 21st-century metropolitan existence.
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What if 100m or more people marched around the world in protest at what it is we now see: the ineptitude, selfishness, the cruelties and the threats to our collective well-being?
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The scripts devote plenty of time to character development, but it's never been the show's strength, because most of these characters act in mean and vicious ways, controlled by fear and selfishness.
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While Western allies are aghast at such raw selfishness in foreign affairs, Arab audiences have long been cynical, and perhaps rightfully so, in their assessment of the motivations of US foreign policy.
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Charlie ultimately wins a fantasy apprenticeship with the world's greatest candymaker, while the other children on his factory tour, all greedy and spoiled, learn unpleasant karmic lessons about the dangers of selfishness.
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I immediately did the thing we all do when confronted with our own selfishness, which is selfishly think for a while about how bad I felt about having been a crummy friend.
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In an interview at the end of the film, Gooch wonders aloud whether the boys even knew why they did it, adding that in her opinion, plain selfishness was mostly to blame.
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The great challenge of our moment is the crisis of isolation and fragmentation, the need to rebind the fabric of a society that has been torn by selfishness, cynicism, distrust and autonomy.
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ABOUT THE CARDINALS (4-6-1): Arizona surrendered a total of 68 points in losses at Minnesota and Atlanta in its last two games, and Arians hinted at selfishness as the cause.
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On Monday night in Chicago, before the Bears hosted the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football, decency and respect shockingly took a backseat to selfishness and possibly support for ISIS, who knows.
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Selfishness may be essential to civilization, but that only raises the question of whether a civilization so out of step with our evolved nature makes sense for the human beings within it.
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Trump was able to recruit some talented people, mostly on the foreign policy side, but organizational cultures are set from the top, and a culture of selfishness has always marked this administration.
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The core problems that have driven Trump's job approval ratings below 40 percent and alienated GOP Congressional leaders and international counterparts stem from the president himself: His selfishness, impulsivity, inattention and ignorance.
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By refusing to even entertain the idea of how this movement might carry on without her, Dany is demonstrating the usual selfishness that citizens of Westeros have come to expect from their leaders.
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While other coming-of-age films depict young girlhood with quirky levity, the selfishness of young girls rebranded as subversive, First Match distinguishes itself as one that doesn't treat youth with kid gloves.
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There's also an added layer of emotional reckoning, as she — a rich, white British lady raiding other people's cultures for personal growth — will be forced to face the selfishness of her whole legacy.
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Democrats need to deal with this current political reality of individual selfishness and shift accordingly, rather than pretend we live in a country where social issues and racial equity are important to everyone.
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The first two installments, "The Violet Hour" and "The Royal We," are morality tales about a battle between decency and selfishness; both rely on surprise endings that provide closure but aren't particularly believable.
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What I will tell you is that this show, which for years took every possible stab it could at the callow selfishness of its characters, ends up embracing them with empathy and understanding.
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Dombek's "The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism" is a treatise that comes in at just under 140 pages of text, dense with information but light on its feet.
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The conscience is the instinct that compels us to strive to be better, and the small but powerful inner voice that's most disappointed when we make a decision based in greed or selfishness.
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With his penchant for cruelty, bigotry, narcissism, selfishness and even his primitive primate dominance displays, he has shredded the accepted understandings of personal morality that prevent the strong from preying on the weak.
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It's also possible that his displays of decency toward the villagers are motivated by selfishness as much as altruism and that he may not be the righteous nice guy they take him for.
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And while the show brings up tantalizingly thorny issues of faith, hypocrisy, sacrifice and selfishness, they are like dark clouds hovering above the story without ever breaking into a full-fledged dramatic storm.
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That's partly because it self-consciously approaches politics as a struggle against selfishness, and partly because it has invested itself so deeply, and increasingly inflexibly, on issues such as climate change or immigration.
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Its failures have revealed glimpses of the worst flaws of our national character, if such a thing exists: the stolid selfishness of my money, my holiday, my family, my right to burn coal.
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Report: SoftBank is taking control of WeWork at an ~$2000B valuation Maybe the contrast between Neumann's ridiculously communal language and his seeming rank selfishness is an extreme case, but it's also fairly typical.
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A family drama and an ethical thriller, Mr. Mungiu's film is an indictment of the everyday corruption that festers not only in Romania, but everywhere selfishness has become the supreme social value. 9.
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But there are billions of us on the planet, and at least a few are bound to be adaptable enough to survive our own stupidity and selfishness, and continue the species for some time.
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It isn't a matter of selfishness so much as being caught by a quicksand of negative thoughts that drag the patient deeper and deeper until he or she no longer sees a way out.
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He does an impressive job of capturing the current mood of disillusionment, echoing left-wing complaints about rampant commercialism, right-wing complaints about narcissistic and bullying students, and general worries about atomisation and selfishness.
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Last year he called for a radical change of attitude towards immigrants, saying they should be welcomed with dignity and denouncing the "populist rhetoric" he said was fuelling fear and selfishness in rich countries.
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It also feels a bit like it's trying to connect the selfishness of the "world's largest asshole" to the common complaint that millennials are self-centered, terrible people, as Will Burns does for Forbes.
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There are items about Trump's unpredictable temperament, his divorces, his exaggerated business acumen, his misogyny, his racism, his selfishness, his general shittiness as a person—subjects we've examined ad nauseam for the past year.
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The film practices "an aesthetics of shaming, laying bare the hypocrisy, the selfishness and the wishful thinking embedded in the deep structures of 21st-century metropolitan existence," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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Lindenauer argues that the 18th-century popular imagination took the same terrible attributes that the Puritans had ascribed to witches — malice, selfishness, coldness, absence of maternal impulse — and started ascribing them to stepmothers instead.
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He spoke on housing and homelessness, called for universal health care and free college education, blasted mass incarceration and an unequal criminal justice system and condemned "the 1 percent" for its greed and selfishness.
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And when we're all feeling good, that's when we rally together, high off selflessness or selfishness or some blend of both, and realize we're a self-contained economy that circulates the same five dollars!
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And we're designed to not really see how selfish and unfair we're being, and in fact we're designed to have specific illusions about ourselves and the world that facilitate the selfishness and the unfairness.
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New research finds evidence for a different hypothesis: "The basic idea is that people are punishing selfishness to convey to other people that they are trustworthy," Jillian Jordan, a psychology researcher at Yale, tells me.
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The pontiff last month called for a radical change of attitude towards immigrants, saying they should be welcomed with dignity and denouncing the "populist rhetoric" he said was fuelling fear and selfishness in rich countries.
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In "The Vanishing American Adult" he talks about a country now in "perpetual adolescence", and stresses family, reading and community service in a culture he sees as giving way to selfishness, celebrity and screen-time.
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I dropped it back on the ground almost immediately, upon which the player busted out a dance move to acknowledge my lack of selfishness and rewarded me with the next-best gun from their inventory.
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The movie has several moments where Kitty and Josh's materialism has blinded them to their own callousness and selfishness, and there's an ongoing theme about forgotten Americans — the poor who are in need of help.
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But then, I guess you failed to remember that the entire book of Galatians was written to the CHURCH, and that Paul's anger was to the bigotry and selfishness within the Christian church at Galatians.
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To be sure, when I think back to 1968, I shudder at my immaturity, selfishness, and lack of responsibility: The events of that year were changing people, and I was in desperate need of change.
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"A best friendship of 10 years has been fractured by the selfishness of Jonathan, who needs to be seen as an all-powerful genius that writes, directs, produces and does it himself," Mr. Gooding added.
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From then on "Marvin's Room" concerns itself with the deeper questions of caretaking: Is it selfless or — as Hank, Lee's troubled 17-year-old, maintains — just another kind of selfishness to devote oneself to others?
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Once, Jack Benny, whose character was known for frugality and selfishness, got a huge laugh by glancing down at the baseball he was supposed to be first-pitching, pocketing it, and walking off the field.
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Civil War's themes center on questions of the thin line between moral righteousness and selfishness; that both Evans and Downey Jr. play on both sides of that line so ably is a testament to their strengths.
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As the novel builds to its intensely satisfying conclusion, though, it becomes less and less clear that Rojas really trusts or values humanity, which he sees as unalterably capable of fear and doubt, selfishness and betrayal.
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Last week's game changer reveal is a bit of real life action, one that you'd think would make Hannah reconsider the way she's been living her life, but true to form, her selfishness takes center stage.
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" If you find a partner whose preferences complement your own, as Stevenson wrote that she had, you're golden, commenters be damned — but, as Stevenson also wrote, "I firmly believe this perceived selfishness is owed to me.
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The ham-handed Republican attempts to dismantle the health care system—the "socialism" warnings, the appeals to the selfishness of privileged white folks—have only reinforced the public's support for government taking care of its citizens.
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He spread disease across the country, and the Earth was slaughtered by human selfishness—waste being spilled into the sea at alarming rates, trees being torn from the root to be replaced by facilities and suburbs.
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I don't happen to agree with socialism, because I think it doesn't interface with human selfishness in the right way so as to leverage human energy in the right way, so as to produce good societies.
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America has always been racist, has always been restrictive in whom it chooses to grant the rights of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, has always been a country where selfishness has been rewarded.
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Glover's central purpose was to give the show a lens through which to explore the selfishness and myopia of Dunham's Hannah, a move many critics at the time treated as a sublimely subversive bit of cleverness.
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In a survey last year by the Allensbach Institute, commissioned for a study by Rainer Zittelmann, a historian, the foremost qualities associated with the rich were selfishness (62%), materialism (56%), recklessness (50%), greed (49%) and arrogance (43%).
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Aside from commenting on their base inanity and deep selfishness, I even had the best joke to impart that one techie told me: In the event of doomsday, I have some good news and some bad news.
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Listening to the robbed mothers and oppressed spouses and neglected children of literary history, we notice that much of what has traditionally been ascribed to artistic ruthlessness is indistinguishable from the standard-issue selfishness of non-artists.
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It's a reminder that while there are no do-overs in life, a moment's reflection can be all the difference between a long road to hell paved by your own misguided selfishness and a happy, fulfilled existence.
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To give Americans the chance to stand up to the forces of bigotry, intolerance, and selfishness that not only gave rise to Trump, but that have been bubbling up among Tea Party House Republicans for years now.
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Francis wove his comments, made at the end of the torchlight service, around the themes of shame and repentance, conjuring up the image of a modern world where pride, arrogance and selfishness often trump humility and generosity.
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Photo by Amy Touchette/courtesy of FSG Kristin Dombek's The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism is a thoughtful and often hilarious inquiry of the supposed rise of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder.
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Individualism has long been a core American value, yet as Alexis de Tocqueville observed way back in 1835 in his seminal volume on American society, Americans also believe that individuals must compromise between selfishness and self-fulfillment.
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Once again, there was selfishness in the sorrow, a feeling of being deprived of a talent that still had so much to give, both to us and to a popular art form that always needs shaking up.
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Saturday's incident follows Abdu Sharkawy, an infectious disease expert from Canada, going viral for saying that people's selfishness — evidenced by the theft of face masks and hoarding of household items — could make an already dire situation worse.
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Whether Bloomberg is in this for reasons of vanity or selfishness or something nobler, the actual polling out there—and the general trends in the Democratic electorate—suggest he has virtually no shot at winning this thing.
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Modern Love On this week's podcast, the actor Harry Lennix reads "In a Small Bag, She Packed All Our Hopes," about a small act of kindness that exposes the author's own selfishness and invigorates his life instinct.
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The benefit of the movie's short attention span is that its darker scenes never get too uncomfortable — you never feel like the filmmakers are deliberately telling a story about how the pet industry feeds on human selfishness.
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We've seen example after example of how the human element of this enterprise harms and damages its progress, through incompetence, fraud, selfishness, prejudice, or the simple combination of an honest oversight or slip with plain bad luck.
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The contemporary debate around immigration is often framed around an axis of selfishness versus generosity, with Donald Trump talking about the need to put "America first" while opponents tell heartbreaking stories of deportations and communities torn apart.
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I am able to take from these experiences what I'm looking for—mind-expansion, self-exploration, empathetic connection, sensorial amplification—without the addiction and selfishness, and other types of ugliness that I associate with many non-psychedelic drugs.
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In the trailer, he's played like a man who depended on football like it were a bodily function, a clearing of the throat, and the dopey selfishness of a pursuit that narrow at the cost of everything else.
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"The cowardice decision to err on the wrong side of the fence to avoid negative publicity in a catch 22 position has definitely revealed the selfishness of the organization not to stand with their employees," wrote one reviewer.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Tuesday for a radical change of attitude towards immigrants, saying they should be welcomed with dignity and denouncing the "populist rhetoric" he said was fuelling fear and selfishness in rich countries.
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"Not since the 1920s, a decade that these Teflon Years of the 1980s increasingly resemble, has the nation witnessed so much common celebration of greed and selfishness," wrote the journalist Haynes Johnson for the Washington Post in 1987.
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Yet her affair with Nick is an expression of exquisite, compulsive selfishness; never before has she had so little control over herself and so much over another person, a disturbing truth that she does her best to ignore.
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It showed a cast of chronically selfish people learning to mitigate their selfishness by caring more for each other, even in the face of a cartoonishly elaborate demon bureaucracy that wanted them to believe none of that mattered.
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I kind of want to tell him that some of the traits he displayed (selfishness, not being emotionally open, etc.) are what made me realize he wasn't my guy, even though he was the one that ended it.
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Everyone would love to rate themselves the highest on patience and romantic and the lowest on selfishness, but if these people were perfect and had zero problems in relationships, they wouldn't need online dating in the first place.
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Studies from the Yale Infant Cognition Center have shown that young babies -- after watching a puppet show in which one puppet demonstrated selflessness and another selfishness -- were much more likely to choose the selfless puppet as their favorite.
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Downplaying the selfishness and irresponsibility of Crowhurst's actions, Marsh has made a movie about a man playing the part of a hero — apparently, in this telling, to restore his self-respect and gain the admiration of his children.
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Which is to say sobbing from Shkreli over the state of his new digs could be seen as an insult to seasoned convicts—an act of selfishness that might become a "jacket" hanging over him for his whole bid.
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Her uncle explains that, by keeping the truth from Nai Nai, they are "bearing the emotional burden for her" and that Billi's desire to tell her the truth is an act of selfishness, borne from a learned American individualism.
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The characters in "Skeleton Crew," the very fine new play by Dominique Morisseau that opened on Tuesday night at the Atlantic Stage 2, travel an uncertain path between comfort and chaos, lawfulness and criminality, mutual support and blinkered selfishness.
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But Tahani's flaw is that she did good things for bad reasons: selfishness, a search for fame, and an attempt to fill a deep hole in her heart that was caused by a lack of parental love and support.
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But given how consistently this series chooses, again and again, to let Sherlock off the hook for both his perpetual selfishness and his self-destructive behavior, it would be a huge relief to see him actually face real consequences.
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" In a Psychology Today article published in 2013, evolutionary psychologist Gillian Ragsdale noted that "the press is awash with warnings about delaying motherhood and the short-sighted selfishness of career-hungry women who suddenly realize it's now or never.
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That you've conflated doing what you want to do with selfishness is no surprise — as Steve notes, our culture does a fine job of communicating that message to women and girls — but the two things are not the same.
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The European political project, whose founding idea remains far ahead of global politics, is essentially trapped in an unproductive contradiction between postnational development and a re-emergent nationalism, between shared politics and the national selfishness of the member states.
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What he doesn't seem to grasp are the hidden costs of his unbridled selfishness: He's prepared to abandon all the friends that he's made, including Wags, who's regaling him with an effusive toast that he's not present to hear.
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Forced to live underground after their Warsaw apartment was dive-bombed, his family had to pay others to carry grandmother's stretcher through sewers and cellars, one of many first-hand lessons in the selfishness of people during trying times.
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It shows the characters' extreme selfishness, their willingness to switch on a dime—their willingness to sell themselves at any given moment for the right price, and to cut each other out of the deal when it suits them.
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But the newly formed Paramount Network is going for it, turning the classic, ruthless film into a TV series that really doesn't seem to let up on the kind of spare-no-one selfishness that made the original so brilliant.
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The scene reveals their immeasurable selfishness – which we sort of sensed when they killed a child in order to avoid switching schools – as does the present scene in which they stage a massive gang fight in order to exact personal revenge.
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But set aside the pathological selfishness of Trump's comment and keep in mind that one of the biggest bombshells of the campaign was the revelation that Donald Trump claimed a nearly $1 billion deduction on his personal income taxes in 1995.
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If the United States wants to increase the chances of success, it would let the Afghans conduct the process on their own while reminding all participants — including the Afghan government — that nobody will win if diplomacy succumbs to selfishness or ego.
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I recently met up with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau at the Nomad Hotel in New York and spoke with him about his own selfishness, why he makes his daughter work two jobs, and Jaime Lannister's internal battle to be his own man.
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Like a friend who tells you she's stopped reading the news as part of her "self-care practice," the app has filtered "the world's moments" through a self-perpetuating escapist fantasy that promotes blandness, niceness, and selfishness without apology or regret.
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Vegas wins in four, Ovechkin has 11 points and Michael Wilbon spends 15 minutes on PTI yelling about how Ovechkin's selfishness and the Knights' "team game" was the Capitals' downfall and it's the most-watched piece of hockey content this season.
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The difference between solving a problem of selfishness and solving one of egocentrism is a difference of convincing people to care about others versus assuming they already do care, but are failing to comprehend the actual, tangible impact of their behavior.
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Besides, doesn't every decision ultimately originate at that same intersection of selfishness and altruism, exactly like that summer service trip I chose to take, looking at once to learn about the injustices of the world and to make out with boys?
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That whole time Dallas was growing infatuated with Smith, a 6-foot-3 North Carolina State freshman, despite well-publicized concerns about a knee injury he had suffered in high school and whispers of selfishness and moodiness when the Wolfpack struggled.
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But Roth does not necessarily endorse the point of view of his misogynistic heroes — in fact, they often emerge as misguided, limited, and deeply flawed characters, who hurt themselves and the people around them with their selfishness and inability to love.
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He then called those same citizens falling into despair to recognize their own selfishness before unifying to solve the energy crisis, in part by embracing the value of sacrifice over the self-indulgence that Carter associated with America's materialistic, consumer culture.
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After two seasons of abject selfishness and reckless indifference to the wider world, our characters may be looking at the proverbial last Sunday Funday of their lives — the last chance to act without consequence before they have to get their acts together.
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Still, Sheldon's closing tribute to his friends reflected how, in his unorthodox manner, he obviously cherished them, in the same way he overcame his selfishness to enter into a relationship with Amy that nobody could have possibly envisioned when the series began.
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" Scaramucci, who wrote a recent op-ed defending the press, suggests that many who work with Trump lose their ability to be critical: "You start to conform your behavior to who you're talking to ... sycophancy is a form of selfishness and self-preservation.
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That has something to do with the broader problems in our political system, but it also has to do with the reigning libertarianism in our society, with the selfishness of people who turn away from politics into the cocoon of their private life.
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" John Stuart Mill devoted chapters of Principles of Political Economy to the class structure of the modern economy and its premodern predecessors and observed that "all privileged and powerful classes, as such, have used their power in the interest of their own selfishness.
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The student, Hilary Matthews (Adelaide Clemens), in whose bedroom the scene is set, is allergic to the naked selfishness implied by the famous Prisoner's Dilemma, which pits two criminals against each other in a guessing game about who might rat the other out.
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Titch's depressed cousin, hobbled by the burden of a miserable childhood, arrives to deliver a fateful message and then, in an act of stupendous selfishness, takes Wash with him into the brush and commits suicide, enjoying the grim privilege denied to Big Kit.
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You recently wrote a piece in the New York Times about your own selfishness, where you describe the moment you transitioned from the self-centeredness of youth into a more aware, mature person capable of putting your mother's feelings before your own.
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Defense asked for 5 years in prison Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon referenced the submitted sentencing memo that she said detail additional accounts of victims of Weinstein's abuse and show his lack of human empathy, selfishness and a life rooted in criminality.
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"In our current world of selfishness and intolerance of those who are different, here we share and celebrate Burgundy," said Aubert de Villaine, co-director of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, perhaps the most renowned Burgundy producer, who offered remarks before the dinner.
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God bless America, whose partisan fevers are so corrosive that when the musician Caleb Keeter tweeted that his presence in Las Vegas on Sunday had shown him "how wrong" he was to oppose gun control, critics aplenty assailed the selfishness of the epiphany.
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With each instance, all the most hyperbolically misanthropic associations that Americans have about face masks — an admission of disease, selfishness, stupidity, paranoia, gullibility, and greed — becomes further correlated with Asians, unfairly stigmatizing us as the culprits of a problem we didn't create.
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For most of the story, we have watched Charlie and Nicole talk in a furtive, curtailed way about the things that really bothered them — broken promises, an infidelity, a partner's blinkered selfishness — and instead rely on their lawyers to do the real mudslinging.
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PETER MOORE, SEATTLE To the Editor: I do wish that all living former presidents would raise their voices in unison to counter President Trump's selfishness, ignorance, and lies and distortions of the truth, and so affirm the American way of life and government.
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But it also suits what seems to be his real motive, to illuminate human nature — its entwined essences of selfishness and loneliness, cruelty and desire — however fleetingly, on a binary lightning field where the only escape from the system is built into the system.
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As Ms Millham adds, her country already seems worryingly close to the state of affairs described in the Book of Mormon, her faith's sacred text, when a society in the New World perished because selfishness abounded and people mistreated the land and one another.
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Some lies are wrong because they have bad consequences; some lies are wrong because they betray trust; some are wrong because they are the outcome of vicious traits such as cowardice or selfishness; some are wrong because they deny the autonomy of rational agents.
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" There are also the forces of "inertia and the allure of near-term gains and the preferences of the world's workers and consumers, who fall somewhere on a long spectrum of culpability stretching from knowing selfishness through true ignorance and reflexive, if naïve, complacency.
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We're premiering his latest track "Monster" below, which tackles the stigma attached to mental health issues and the baggage that can come with it – accusations of selfishness, the word "crazy" being thrown around too casually, and "normal" used as if it means anything at all.
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Not that I was expecting it to happen any differently; that game's rather older, battle-scarred Joel's selfishness mightn't have always been obvious, but he was exclusively in it for himself ever since his daughter's death, and the greater good wasn't about to change that.
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On that Thursday call, Pelosi made clear her strong opposition to any attempt by a lawmaker to force House members to return to Washington for the vote, saying such a move would be "inexcusable" and amount to "selfishness," according to two sources on the call.
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In short, driving puts you into social situations in which you have to co-construct a shared culture of civility, and go against your own primeval selfishness, and it does so while you are encased in what is potentially a 4,000-pound metal weapon.
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"At a time when deep-seated fears of socioeconomic and cultural change need to be addressed honestly and without prejudice, Mr. Trump grandstands like a snake-oil salesman, squandering his formidable charisma and communication skills in favor of ego, selfishness and false promises," he writes.
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Advent holds space for our grief, and it reminds us that all of us, in one way or another, are not only wounded by the evil in the world but are also wielders of it, contributing our own moments of unkindness or impatience or selfishness.
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And for a small number of us, the image of the entrepren-asshole provides a handy, all-encompassing justification for heartless behavior: It is easy to write off our own flaws when selfishness and callousness are portrayed as the unifying features of our era's great men.
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A lot of populism is driven by rage at a political establishment that is guilty of crass selfishness: moving from the public sector to lucrative posts in private business, scratching each other's backs, applying open competition to working-class jobs while shielding their own from threat.
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In Difficult People, we watch Julie and Billy give a middle finger to societal norms and expect the world to reward them—they frequently misinterpret blind selfishness as bravely suffering to achieve their own goals—while they flounder under the weight of the expectations of adulthood.
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To reach this conclusion, researchers from three bodies — the Institute for Futures Studies, the University of South Carolina and Stockholm University — studied both reported behaviors and attitudes in Americans and Europeans to discover that selfishness in these groups had an unmistakable parallel to their fertility and salaries.
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This "race selfishness" was sharpened in the late 19th century, as the elites of the "higher races" struggled to contain mass disaffection generated by the traumatic change of globalization: loss of jobs and livelihoods amid rapid economic growth and intensified movements of capital, goods and labor.
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For Mr. Deneen, liberalism was created the moment proto-modern thinkers such as Machiavelli proposed grounding a political philosophy upon "human behaviors of pride, selfishness, greed, and the quest for glory," rather than the principles of self-restraint that characterized political discourse in medieval and classical times.
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Bush's antipathy toward Mr. Trump — "greed, selfishness and ugly," as she summed up the New York real estate mogul in her diary in 19903, long before he became president — but a copy of the book obtained by The New York Times includes other revelations about her life.
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There's a sociologist called Alvin Gouldner who wrote an article many years ago called "The Norm of Selfishness" and he pointed out in the United States at that time (and it's still true to some extent) wealthy people actually didn't talk very much about their philanthropy.
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Playing a pair of soul mates in selfishness in Mike Bartlett's scathing portrait of the baby boomer generation, Amy Ryan and Richard Armitage advance from the ages of 19 to 64 with a galloping satirical wit that pulls you along, happy and appalled, through the decades.
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" A spokesperson for DxE told the Independent: "In a time where we are experiencing mass environmental destruction, largely due to our unsustainable and unethical food choices, it is paramount that we put our egos and selfishness aside and accept that we are all connected, we are all animals.
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"You can't have countries that massively benefit from the solidarity of the European Union and that massively voice their national selfishness when it comes to migrant issues," he added, in a clear hint to Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, which oppose the EU relocation scheme for asylum seekers.
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Here's how you transform Sherlock from a deeply flawed junkie whose selfishness drives away everyone around him into a mythical superhero whose cleverness ultimately keeps everyone by his side and in his thrall: Make sure that every action every other character takes winds up being about Sherlock himself.
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But it also gives you a sense of playfulness, and a sense of tragedy, and let's you hear people's stories and reveals a wide kaleidoscope of the world and a full arc of humanity—humans in their joys and selfishness and generosity, and frustrations and confusions and warmth.
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Some of this owes itself to a natural inclination to hope for something more beneath a calloused veneer: Nobody wants to dislike the transcendent athletes they have invested so much time observing and covering, even when they can recognize how fundamental ego and selfishness informs those players' greatness.
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The paper nonetheless illustrates the perpetual struggle found at every stratum of the natural world and its human hyperprojection: between cooperation and selfishness, the tribe and the individual — between the creation of a public good, like a siderophore agent for scavenging iron, and a public hazard, like acid waste.
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Generosity and naiveté are luxuries of the rich, cunning and selfishness are the tools of the poor, and an inability to empathize with others is the unavoidable consequence of a capitalist system in which the only way to get to the top is by stepping on everyone else.
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The Russian-American hockey writer Slava Malamud, who has long criticized Ovechkin for his poor leadership, his selfishness and for his politics — Ovechkin announced on Instagram that he was heading up a social movement to back Putin's re-election — took to Twitter to put two and two together.
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Instead of language chastising consumers for their selfishness, instead of spurious accusations of secret profit behind ad-block technologies, the advertising industry needs to recognize that it has built no good will, that its failure to stop and active decision to escalate this problem is the direct cause of consumers' actions.
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One gauge of social isolation, or perhaps selfishness: Murthy says he saw families sometimes drop elderly family members off at a hospital for Thanksgiving or another long weekend in what sounds to me rather like the practice of a family leaving a dog at a kennel when they're going away.
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In the book, I'm trying to tease apart that vulnerable moment when we fear the other's selfishness, and the way our habit of diagnosis overdetermines the moment, encourages us to label things as mental illness when we might be better off sitting in the difficulty without deciding what it is.
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There lies the incredible selfishness—really, the astounding humanocentric egotism—inherent in Breatharianism: the idea that a small group of enlightened people can succeed where the rest of the animal kingdom cannot, that Breatharian-trained humans are somehow better than the natural world, from whose cosmic energy they desire to feed.
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But neither, I hope, will obscure the purpose of the device: namely, to underline the essential, inefficient, painstaking and pain-giving selfishness of all passion, all greed — of all urges, whatever they may be, that insist on being satisfied without regard to the effect their satisfaction has upon the outside world.
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" Next week boasts a rare screening of "Black Legion" (1937), a Bogart film that, the New York Times review noted, was a fictional account "of the hooded organization that terrorized the Midwest in 1935-36 cloaking its cowardice, bigotry, selfishness, stupidity and brutality under the mantle of '100 percent Americanism.
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"It is troubling to see, in many parts of the world, an increase in selfishness and indifference, lack of concern for others and the attitude that says life is good as long as it is good for me, and when things go wrong, anger and malice are unleashed," Francis said.
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In a moment of levity at an otherwise somber memorial for Bryant and his daughter Gianna at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, O'Neal recounted a moment early in Bryant's career when two of his fellow Lakers came to him to complain about Bryant's selfishness on the court.
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All that is left is hope that in our last hours we find a way to turn this around and turn El Salvador around, to end the corruption, to stop the selfishness of our time and to finally care for all citizens in El Salvador and not just a select few.
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In a knowledge economy corporate learning is necessary to survive Setting a goal to connect with the oneness everyday through daily meditation will ultimately advance us to the next level of evolution and get us unstuck from the current level of misguidedness and selfishness in the daily optics of living, working, and achieving.
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Although in the book Dombek's more concerned about her own "narciphobia" than about diagnosing others' selfishness, her voice appeals to the wide range of people affected by narcissism—the tired, used-up victims, people who tried (and inevitably failed) to love and save someone with NPD, and perhaps even the actual narcissists themselves.
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Portraying a pair of soul mates in selfishness in Mike Bartlett's "Love, Love, Love," which opened on Wednesday night at the Laura Pels Theater, Amy Ryan and Richard Armitage advance from the ages of 19 to 64 with a galloping satirical wit that pulls you along, happy and appalled, through the decades.
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For me, I much more want to think about everybody is capable of anything, and in that way, it's connected to something else that I've thought about 12-step recovery, which is it's less that I think like: Oh, addicts are the only people who have a dangerous relationship to anger [or] selfishness.
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Their titles announce a quarry, or query: "Men Explain Things to Me" (Rebecca Solnit), "The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism" (Kristin Dombek), "The Hatred of Poetry" (Ben Lerner), "Little Labors" (Rivka Galchen), "Pretentiousness: Why It Matters" (Dan Fox), "Nicotine" (Gregor Hens), "The Art of Death" (Edwidge Danticat).
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Rand's simplistic reversals — selfishness is a virtue, altruism is a sin, capitalism is a deeply moral system that allows human freedom to flourish — have given her work a patina of transgression, making her beloved by those who consider themselves bold, anti-establishment truth tellers even while they cling to the prevailing hierarchical order.
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Gettleman is admirably honest about his selfishness and naïveté: He is a passenger involved in a hit-and-run accident in which an Ethiopian soldier dies but he quickly "brushed that away"; he is arrested with a notebook that could expose Ogadeni rebels to torture and assassination; he cheats multiple times on Courtenay.
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Gee, G.E. After Bernie Sanders singled out General Electric's tax avoidance and extensive overseas operations as an example of corporate "greed" and "selfishness," Jeff Immelt, G.E.'s chief executive, penned a long, snarky op-ed for The Washington Post that went beyond defending the company, and appeared to take sides in the Democratic nominating contest.
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His lies are preposterous and glaring and never anything but the obvious opposite of what is actually true; his unquestioned desires and deeply held, deeply unreasoning bigotries and petty fixations are all absolutely untouched from the 1988 Rich Guy factory settings; the sheer mass of his annihilating selfishness leaves no room for anything like subtext.
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More broadly, the "You're too rich to complain" attack on Kaepernick represents a really limited imagination and a sad view of humans as having no capacity for anything more than selfishness — one that I would argue says more about the critics than it does about the activists who are the target of their scorn.
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I've always heard people say things like, "You can't pour from an empty cup," and, "You have to put your own oxygen mask on before helping someone else," but putting this into practice was difficult for me, especially when the foundation of femininity seems to be rooted in caring, and accusations of selfishness are often weaponized against mothers.
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When John Carpenter released They Live in 1988, his attack on the selfishness and commercialism of 1980s America (the white family in Get Out has the same name, Armitage, as one of the characters in They Live), the Washington Post sneered that "the heavy artillery of sociological context and political implication" was just a distraction from a silly plot.
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He said many should feel "shame because our generations are leaving young people a world that is fractured by divisions and wars, a world devoured by selfishness ..." The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics praised those in the Church who are trying to arouse "humanity's sleeping conscience" through their work helping the poor, immigrants, and prison inmates.
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The best-possible-girl-who-wants-to-be-a-boy was confronted by a direct challenge to her identity: In the story of art, a story of merciless male excellence, a story littered with neglected or abandoned children and the neglected or abandoned careers of those women whose capacity for selfishness failed them, who was she?
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I don't want to call hers a definitive performance, because that would imply that her Mary is a kind of fly in amber—which is the last thing you think as you watch her jump from flirtatiousness to maternal concern, from junkie selfishness to contempt for male self-regard, from deviousness to the sting of loss.
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The closeted Forster is even a character in "The Inheritance," looking with awe and no little concern at his hotheaded progeny — a sampling of contemporary gay men in a muddle — as they make the same blunders his parallel "Howards End" characters made then: ignoring history, trying to manhandle the future, acting from selfishness and self-delusion.
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One of the most challenging aspect of their jobs is that they have to face on a daily basis a public that believes the worst about Congress and Washington: it's filled with lawmakers and lobbyists who have the worst character flaws (greed, lust, selfishness) and that no one in Washington cares about the rest of the country.
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According to this understanding of the finale, Michael and Judge Gen decided to throw caution to the wind and allow The Good Place's four misplaced humans to have a second chance at life, in order to see if they would continue to embrace their selfishness or bounce back from a brush with death by living as better people.
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But he'll probably be best remembered as the star and creator of The Larry Sanders Show, the mid-'90s cable comedy that began as a lampoon of the late-night talk-show wars, but evolved into something deeper and nervier: An unflinching, doggedly hilarious look at the narcissism, anxiety, and selfishness that are all but second nature to the people who entertain us.
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But the episode gets its emotional heft from its "human" moments, like the scenes of android sex worker Niska (Emily Berrington) being objectified by men, George and Odi's interactions as they take comfort in each other's brokenness, and the heartbreaking depictions of the Hawkins household's dysfunction, which is rooted in Joe's selfishness and exacerbated by the addition of the alluring Anita.
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The damage that TrumpCare would do to poor people is so harsh and extreme it is more in line with the atheist selfishness of the guru of greed, Ayn Rand, a favorite of Ryan's, than the teachings of great religious leaders, including Pope Francis, a favorite of mine, who teaches we should care for the poor, not deliberately hurt them.
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But today, they confront idiosyncratic plotlines, like the insecure modesty of the Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant; his former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Russell Westbrook's radical self-reliance; and, of course, LeBron James's journey back to the Cleveland Cavaliers, in which he has been criticized for selfishness and selflessness while being praised and condemned for exploiting his position as the sport's dominant player.
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Many of her worst qualities are mitigated: her snobbery and cruelty towards the working class is reduced to a brief argument about the 1832 Reform Act that expanded male suffrage; her disdainful manipulation of Walker for financial gain is sanitised with romantic feelings it is unclear the real Lister ever felt; her selfishness is portrayed as an admirable attempt to live entirely on her own terms.
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But in the Netflix adaptation, it's clearer than ever that Mr. Poe, despite his goodwill and basic decency, combines all the worst traits of every other well-meaning adult the Baudelaires encounter: His condescension, impatience, selfishness, fear, self-preservation, misguided politeness, and, above all, his refusal to listen to and respect the children endanger them almost as often as the villainous Count Olaf does.
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But then I saw it again, and saw what I'd missed: that Charlie's selfishness and narcissism is all there, but he rationalizes it away, and the movie invites us to experience just a little of his own realization by giving Nicole, played by Scarlett Johansson, a full range of emotion as a woman who is finally just trying to find her own way in the world.
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In her convention speech, Warren will again offer the ultimate message, which is both positive and negative: positive supporting her egalitarian vision of an America with a rising tide that lifts all boats, and negative against the cold and cruel forces of selfishness, greed, division and the politics of bigotry that Trump personifies so perfectly as he exploits the pain of others to profit himself.
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As Fleabag, Waller-Bridge embodies the charming naughtiness of the British tradition—she cites Michael Caine's Alfie as an influence—while forcing herself to reckon with it: Whether she's relaying Fleabag's ill-advised sexual encounters, her tense relationship with her uptight sister, or the moment when she finally comes to terms with the destruction her selfishness and laziness have wrought on her life, Waller-Bridge is the show.
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Those slicks paid a handsome 50 cents a word, but Vonnegut sometimes settled for the down-market penny-a-word sci-fi magazines like the brilliantly named Worlds of If. It's fascinating to watch him work themes that would later animate his 14 novels and five books of nonfiction: the cruel stupidity of war, the dehumanizing dangers of technology, the distillation of American values into mere greed and selfishness.
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They just change format, so that a discussion begun in person continues through texts or e-mails or, as in the following dialogue, instant messages: Bobbi: if you look at love as something other than an interpersonal phenomenon Bobbi: and try to understand it as a social value system Bobbi: it's both antithetical to capitalism, in that it challenges the axiom of selfishness Bobbi: which dictates the whole logic of inequality Bobbi: and yet also it's subservient and facilitatory Bobbi: i.e.
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Three Women hews so closely to its subjects' perspectives that there's no real sense of the cultural atmosphere surrounding them (#MeToo is never mentioned), but all three stories still feel depressingly of the moment: the woman enraptured by great sex with a not-great guy; the woman who has compelling evidence that her teacher groomed her via an annotated copy of her Twilight book, calling himself her "vampire lover"; the woman who seemingly has it all but still has to put up with the selfishness and incompetence of men.
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