It's not in many people's self-interest, at least those that count, to dig up the truth. |
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That has led critics to claim that Labour resistance is motivated by self-interest. |
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A central and crucial lesson was that people had to cast off the blinkers of local self-interest. |
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This latest display of public generosity once again rebuts the myth that most people only have self-interest at heart. |
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It was hard to tell if their support was motivated by self-interest in ensuring water supply to the cities. |
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In place of the pursuit of national self-interest, the needs of millions of ordinary people will have to be addressed. |
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The notion that a small group would disrupt the event for reasons of self-interest will be regarded as distasteful. |
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The relative importance of self-interest against public interest was clear from the start. |
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Indonesia was again becoming an area tied together by economic advantages and self-interest. |
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When people are busy promoting their own self-interest they are invariably better at helping the rest of mankind. |
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Some are very helpful and others are motivated as much by self-interest as service. |
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There is obviously a desire to help people, but self-interest does play a part. |
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By pursuing a policy of pure American self-interest, equally, he can keep things simple. |
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The existence of the community required that all find some measure of self-interest and self-respect. |
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It was not motivated by public interest or community need, but by self-interest and political need. |
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It is a reminder of the delicate line that lies between self-interest and the national interest. |
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Instead of visionaries to lead the way, the game has suffered under the guidance of men motivated by self-interest. |
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By pursuing their own self-interest, individuals are inadvertently promoting the public good. |
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If such action be tainted over much by self-interest, it probably will not avail the accused. |
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Consciences may be salved by the doctrine that the pursuit of self-interest will in fact make everyone better off. |
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Jian's preoccupation with Mr. Yang's ravings, though, is not without self-interest. |
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Those who say that they are willing to sacrifice their self-interest to protect yours are either kidding you, themselves, or both. |
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Everyone is ultimately motivated by self-interest and the pursuit of the almighty dollar. |
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Marrying yourself merely underscores selfishness and self-interest, rather than enabling you to live singly in the best way. |
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Unfortunately, it is not always, or even usually, possible to yoke self-interest into such a self-enforcing mechanism to promote moral ideals. |
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Distrust and self-interest made them stand by as they routed one army after another. |
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No principle or vision is sacrosanct in Washington except its own security and self-interest. |
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Some social theorists argue that individuals are not just motivated by self-interest. |
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For people who live and work in the city, cleaning up the place is obviously a matter of self-interest and self-help. |
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I confess to a certain self-interest here, as I still had hopes of his going halvers on a ticket. |
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There is no harm in self-interest reinforcing philanthropy if the outcome is the benefit of mankind, especially in poorer countries. |
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Although he subscribes to many of the economic ideas of the New Right, it is clear that he is uncomfortable with rampant self-interest. |
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Rational-actor theory supposes that we make decisions by calm, essentially mathematical calculation of our own self-interest. |
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With a few heartwarming exceptions, these workers are churlishly protective of their narrow self-interest. |
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He is intensely and cocksurely moral, but his morality and his self-interest are crudely identical. |
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Further, it is not that economists are not cognizant of the restrictive nature of rational self-interest. |
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Happily for men like this, their view of the constitution is indivisible from their view of their own self-interest. |
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They get away with it because their opponents are, in fact, generally cynical compromisers or self-interest business boys. |
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Enlightened self-interest, then, is the cri de coeur of the liberal interventionists. |
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Because it's the Queensland Government's job to regulate its irrigators, there's the perception of state self-interest in this. |
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Some of us would enjoy the ivory tower only too much, and there is plenty of self-interest on the part of academics who want to return to it. |
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The administration offered the nation economic self-interest, technical wonkery, and a smidgen from the pork barrel. |
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At the age of forty, calculations of long-term self-interest have largely prevailed over hormones. |
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However, critics say the G8 has fudged many issues and put national self-interest before the international common good. |
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There is no such thing as a free trade deal, only self-interest, the cynic insists. |
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Consider the dispiriting view that everybody always acts out of their own self-interest. |
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For the sake of enlightened economic self-interest they must, however, work more closely together. |
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So I think they will act in enlightened self-interest and keep up our coalition as we try to attack this enemy. |
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This book suggests that if you can achieve forgiveness, the side effect of forgiveness is a form of enlightened self-interest. |
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It's not just a matter of solidarity with those who have less than we have but also a matter of enlightened self-interest. |
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Now, so it is in the interest, the enlightened self-interest of the developed world to help the developing world to get over their problem. |
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The way to inspire your kids is with the inspiration of enlightened self-interest. |
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Out of self-interest, rich or eminent people who would curry popular favor to gain political office will dissemble their selfishness and pride. |
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However, my self-interest is tempered by a sense of epistemic value, namely the value of evidence-based public policy. |
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Second, judges are under constant pressure to clear their dockets, and they have an obvious self-interest in avoiding trials. |
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You have to be very angry to be at the point where you no longer have any self-interest. |
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The second way is to appeal instead to other people's self-interest. |
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People have been looking after each other, locked in mutual embraces of self-interest and self-protection. |
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The discomfort with using rational self-interest as an underlying principle is understandable, to a degree. |
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While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest. |
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We don't think the United States has any interest whatsoever in betraying the poor Kurds you see for self-interest. |
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It is a dangerous political issue where self-interest and short-termism risk undermining sound policy. |
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But the bottom line, just to be clear, the bottom line of all this for you is in the end self-interest. |
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William believed that human beings usually acted out of self-interest. |
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This is an agent who is able to overcome the promptings of all heteronomous counsels, such as those of self-interest and desire, should they be in conflict with reason. |
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It's in our interest, also, it's in our enlightened self-interest. |
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Albany recoils from the savage ethos in which his wife lives, foreseeing both her own destruction and that of the universe itself as a consequence of unbridled self-interest. |
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If one sees politics as nothing but the organized pursuit of self-interest, then all talk of a public purpose is bound to appear disingenuous or duplicitous. |
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She notes that in the business community expressions of enlightened self-interest about the need for a healthy vibrant city are beginning to emerge. |
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A cynical politician who believed in the power of patronage, he knew almost everyone of importance in Scotland and how to appeal to their self-interest. |
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The benefit of technocracy is that it avoids the petty mercenary self-interest of industry players. |
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An institution is legitimated in terms of values and norms, that is, a purpose transcending individual self-interest in favor of a presumed higher good. |
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Exchange theory, which focuses on rational self-interest as the basis for relatedness, has been particularly criticized by feminist writers as androcentric. |
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In England, these energies tended to become infused with a democratic radicalism which eschewed collectivism in favor of individual self-interest. |
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It is as much corporate self-interest as corporate altruism. |
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A constant refrain in the media, for example, is that we in the West are the tireless champions of the powerless and oppressed, unbiased by self-interest. |
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The need for an enemy overwhelms even the accuser's self-interest. |
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In fact, a perfectly individualistic society likely would resemble a Hobbesian state of totally atomized individuals, whose relations are determined solely by self-interest. |
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That rationale might not strike a chord with every football fan but then enlightened self-interest goes with the territory of football club ownership. |
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What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest? |
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No amount of international do-goodism is going to prevent countries from acting in what they perceive to be their own self-interest. |
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Cheating by telling half-truths says more about the cheater's self-interest than their value of relationships with others. |
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Of course, Ford was motivated more by self-interest than by altruism. |
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For Sanchez, Amoret allegorizes the courtier who, rather than risk his own security and violate his self-interest, enables and collaborates with tyranny. |
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Shang-Jin Wei argued that if self-interest helped to predict ideology, the authors could be misattributing the effect of self-interest to ideology. |
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Given that the topic at hand in Calma was compensation awarded to directors by directors, the case for self-interest was fairly easy for the plaintiffs to make. |
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However, all these solutions rely on self-interest, and, as such, they reduce the individual to a utility-maximizing servomechanism devoid of all ethical scruples. |
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That's no small feat in a world that, even after the fall of Nazism, communism, and other collectivist ideologies, still looks with suspicion on economic self-interest. |
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The economist Elinor Ostrom, who is on our list this year, has written about the tragedy of the commons, which is the idea that self-interest can undermine the common good. |
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They would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest. |
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