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Births

• 1905 - Lillian Florence Hellman
• 1946 - Xanana Gusmao
• 1949 - Lionel Brockman Richie Jr.
• 1878 - Arthur E. Morgan
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• For beings who have it in us to afford so much joy to others, how miserly we are!

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

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• The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

  David O. McKay

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

  Elizabeth Bowen

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• As a father now, I wouldn’t do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn’t do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

  Anthony Kiedis

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• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

  Honoré de Balzac

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• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

  Jane Austen

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• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Napoleon Hill

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• People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look — like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

  Vanna Bonta

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• Live for yourself — there’s no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.

  Neil Ellwood Peart

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• Well, I know they’ve always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/.

  Neil Ellwood Peart

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• Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  Oscar Levant

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• If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

  Louis Kronenberger

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• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

  John L. Lewis

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• Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

  Israel Zangwill

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