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When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the US in the 1830s, he observed that, both in public and private, Americans are able to overcome selfish desires, thus enabling both a self-conscious and active political society and a vibrant civil society.

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How many times have you been told that real, substantial change isn't possible because most people are too selfish, too stupid or too lazy to try to make a difference in their community?

As long as we believe that people, our own neighbors, are selfish, stupid or lazy, then there's no hope.

Not having someone else to talk to, feeling inadequate, feeling selfish for wanting me-time.

It needs to be constantly contracting, so therefore it's almost selfish.

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