Search results for "Selfishness" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • compound of grossness and simplicity, whose low selfishness leads him to place blind confidence in all the extravagant hopes and promises of his master ...
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  • pay. It is only when human nature changes from selfishness to caring for others and society as a whole that the problems inherent in taxation can be ...
    37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
  • being equally considered. Group selfishness is thus a greater threat to democracy than individual selfishness. In many respects, Western democracy ...
    74 KB (11,141 words) - 21:10, 25 May 2024
  • of Carranza. Carranza's egoismo (selfishness) would eventually become self-destructive, alienating most of the people he needed to hold ...
    34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
  • for the new nation, despite the bickering and selfishness common in the nearly anarchic and bankrupt government under the Articles of Confederation. ...
    38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
  • that deeper than her grief was the selfishness that caused her to fasten upon it. At that moment she became a follower of the Buddha. ...
    35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
  • |* be liberal and avoid selfishness, |---- |* maintain a high moral character, |---- |* be prepared to sacrifice one's own pleasure for the ...
    35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
  • beings. As such, he failed to foresee the selfishness of those in the working class, who after seizing "the means of production" would develop ...
    40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
  • partisan advantages, intellectual cunning, and selfishness. … 305.01 Universe is the starting point for any study of synergetic phenomena. ...
    36 KB (5,646 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
  • the basic values of family life and lead to selfishness. In 2009, Sacks gave an address claiming that Europeans had chosen "consumerism and ...
    46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
  • support for his candidacy, "profound selfishness," in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Though the Seventh of March speech was indeed warmly ...
    42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
  • Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916), was one of the greatest prose writers in American literature. Enormously prolific, James ...
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  • aura he had ever seen, without a particle of selfishness in it". According to occult/theosophical lore, "auras" are invisible emanations ...
    52 KB (7,928 words) - 12:38, 1 August 2022
  • #039;s collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at ...
    89 KB (12,407 words) - 02:53, 2 May 2024
  • goodness on the other hand is often tainted with selfishness." Mezu, 229. === Masculinity and femininity === The gender roles of men and ...
    79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023

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