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It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, ... 
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We ar... 
Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although thei... 
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. 
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruis... 
Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from... 
Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luc... 
Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire 
The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever 
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that the... 
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of ... 
Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-... 
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out i... 
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... 
The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to... 
Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually ... 
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfie... 
The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel ... 
We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest. 
The streets will teach you about racism and capitalism and survival of the fittest. Don't worry abou... 
Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent. 
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, t... 
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least,... 
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar... 
The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active... 
There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. ... 
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to... 
Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic r... 
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, ... 
Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... 
Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... 
If you think only of yourself, if you forget the rights and well-being of others, or, worse still, i... 
In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Ev... 
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful. 
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveal... 
Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live... 
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the ... 
The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. 
Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs on... 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrog... 
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others ... 
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... 
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, ... 
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. 
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. 
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b... 
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... 
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ... 
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b... 
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig... 
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend... 
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... 
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable... 
I hate women because they always know where things are. 
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The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ... 
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. 
Being classy is my teenage rebellion. 
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. 
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make...