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Selfishness is assuming that yours are the only valid interests and concerns out there.
It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother 2009
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So all you Ayn Rand believers can go screw yourselves, because Selfishness is not what this country is about.
Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010
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Long-term Selfishness, beyond the envelope of my own life.
Archive 2010-01-01 Steven Barnes 2010
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Long-term Selfishness, beyond the envelope of my own life.
Naked Selfishness Steven Barnes 2010
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Greed, Power Hungriness, Selfishness is taking priority over the Good of the Country.
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Selfishness is the dross and alloy that gives the unsound ring to many an act that has been called glorious.
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Selfishness is the cause of bashfulness, as well as of more serious evils.
The Mother's Book 1831
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Selfishness is a sort of unrighteousness; it robs others of that share in us which is their due.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Selfishness, which is the root of wickedness, will be cruelty and injustice when necessary for its ends.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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That God's glory is His only motive may be so stated as to mean nearly an Almighty Selfishness, which is far liker the devil than God.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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