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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.
And the profound realization for me is that, if this works, the concept of the selfish gene gets kicked up a level, and we really start talking about selfish matter.
And instead of sharing money, they become selfish.
But interestingly, high testosterone males are also more likely to use their own money to punish others for being selfish.
And the oceans are so productive, there's so much going on in there that's of relevance to humans that we really need to, even from a selfish perspective, try to do better than we have in the past.
So let's make him selfish.
AS: So how do you make a selfish character likable?
Previous to this time, I was very selfish and self-righteous.
There's a mutation in the gene and one of them mutates to follow a selfish strategy.
And that gives me hope because people are not purely selfish.
So if this chimp makes the selfish choice, which is the red token in this case, he needs to give it to us, we pick it up, we put it on a table where there's two food rewards, but in this case, only the one on the right gets food.
Also, money often makes us feel very selfish and we do things only for ourselves.
They won enumerable victories, but no one remembers what they are because they were all fought for selfish ends.
You can talk about the Humanities and that sort of thing, but let's talk about selfish things.
She was an evil woman too selfish to sign, so I spent those 11 years kneeling and praying.
The result is that other people become more valuable alive than dead, and violence declines for selfish reasons.
I met a very difficult environment in the pre-elections, an environment which was increasingly polarized, an environment which was shaped by the selfish politics of dominance and exclusion.
Why does our society continue to be polarized and dominated with selfish politics of dominance and exclusion, by both men and women?
And that might seem surprising, because a lot of people think, "Philosophy is remote from the real world; economics, we're told, just makes us more selfish, and we know that math is for nerds."
And that may be a selfish thing to think, but it's the way I've been brought up.
Now, from a perfectly selfish point of view, the first thing we might like to know is how massive 'Oumuamua is.
The selfish gene.
It's particularly a cultural crisis, a crisis of the institutions unable to reimagine the stupid ways which we have been growing, unable to challenge the oil-hungry, selfish urbanization that have perpetuated cities based on consumption, from southern California to New York to Dubai.
I've even had enough hearing about happy countries because in the end that's still selfish.
Good, the opposite of selfish, good being a country that thinks about all of us.
And so this raises the question, and so, as Smith puts it, "When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?"
As I placed the defibrillator pads on his chest, prepping for what was going to happen, he looked me in the eye and said, "I wish I had spent more time with my children and grandchildren instead of being selfish with my time."
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