What we are getting in their place are naked selfishness, unbridled materialism and marginalisation of compassion. |
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So many of us live in a life of delusion, of separation, of selfishness and of loneliness. |
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Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures. |
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You are so right, alas, there is more and more and no shortage of begrudgery and petty selfishness in Ballina. |
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Emotional selfishness is not a concept in dogdom and they don't know how hard we sometimes have to fight against it ourselves. |
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Her tragic flaw, depending on who you talk to in the family, is either stubbornness, selfishness or a love of suffering. |
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What kind of selfishness put their families back home under such intolerable pressure? |
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For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness. |
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They will tell you that all religions teach us to value life, to refrain from harming others, and to renounce selfishness. |
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Do I act impurely, using my selfishness to cause others to sin with the flesh? |
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The next time India play Australia and an Indian batsman crosses 80, you can bet that the Aussies will sledge him about his selfishness. |
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In rapid succession, the minister exposes her ignorance, selfishness, incompetence, and unhesitating willingness to deceive the British public. |
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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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Guilt, selfishness, deep sorrow and frustration all mingled together in my conscience like a deadly cocktail. |
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Greed, envy, hatred, selfishness, vanity, and arrogance are all negative traits which must be totally eliminated. |
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It may be a little tawdry, but the whole of capitalist economics is based on selfishness and greed. |
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Your company is burning money, wasting it to no purpose other than stupidity and selfishness. |
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He preached a universal message, love of God and love of brother, which was beyond any sectarianism or selfishness. |
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In my more charitable moments, I can forgive my grandfather his selfishness. |
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They live for up to several months in the bush, where they learn to overcome pride, egotism, and selfishness. |
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We are individuals as well as social beings, and open to accusations of selfishness and hypocrisy. |
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It is a story of greed and selfishness eventually defeated by cooperation and friendship. |
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The selfishness of fame seekers is only matched by the personal cost they have to pay for the fame they seek. |
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Jenner's discovery was a touch-stone, to detect what proportion of selfishness alloyed the human heart. |
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Even non-believers must accept the human propensity to self-deceit, selfishness, and evil. |
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I thought being human was all about goodness and sharing, not about greed and selfishness. |
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As a manifestation of petty selfishness and greed such meanness is hard to credit. |
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It is based upon greed and selfishness and the only god is profit, regardless. |
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His examples from the past reveal that greed, hubris and selfishness often impeded recognition of a problem until it was too late. |
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In an era dominated by greed and selfishness, they acted with phenomenal selflessness. |
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He insinuates himself into party after party, observing a parade of gauche behavior, depravity, and selfishness. |
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I was a few paces on before I even considered my selfishness and lack of empathy. |
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The vanity, selfishness and one-upmanship that typified governmental culture in the eighties was exemplified by the narcissism implicit in the leisure complex. |
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The pontiff blasts the selfishness, arrogance and detachment of the cardinals in Rome. |
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An interest in fashion also seems to beget an assumption of selfishness and mean-spiritedness. |
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A divisive selfishness had emerged in the late 1960s that had begun to dominate the body politic. |
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Fatigue, sadness, or psychosis is not about choice or laziness or selfishness. |
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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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In the abstract, these harsh truths steer the soul perilously close to selfishness or, worse, Objectivism. |
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Phil goes through so much to lose his selfishness, to put self aside, that his redemption feels earned. |
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But the desire to nurture is born from blinding selfishness and little or no empathic capacity. |
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A crime of such selfishness, vindictiveness and plain no-goodedness that I hesitate to lay it before you in all its red toothed, black cloaked and villainous evil. |
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Hessler, thanks to the Post, is now the poster child for selfishness, immaturity, and irresponsibility at Occupy Wall Street. |
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The thoughtless selfishness of politicians really disgusts me. |
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Let us turn from selfishness and deceit, from self-pity and self-seeking to discover the spirit of God which is the true spirit of thanksgiving, dedication and commitment. |
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Although they come at it from different perspectives, both owners exhibit a naked greed and selfishness that is undermining the existence of professional sports. |
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The selfishness and mercilessness of these corporate pigs knows no bounds. |
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Brown's selfishness eventually gets the best of him, and Greene closes the novel with a plot twist that introduces more questions than it answers. |
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He promised a saviour who would carry the sin, selfishness, unbelief, disease, grief, sorrow and fear of death on Himself and Destroy that fear, for Good. |
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I reflect for a time upon my own life and dwell a little on the insignificance of my efforts, the selfishness of my concerns, the narrowness of my sympathies. |
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But are not selfishness and recklessness the signs by which great love is often recognized? |
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The writer categorically states that selfishness has no place in marriage. |
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And it is selfishness like that which will crush socialism, you fathead! |
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But she always finds others to castigate for their immorality and selfishness, rarely copping to what she would call a decadent lifestyle if another woman lived it. |
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Maybe that's selfishness and egotism, but that's how I feel. |
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Smoking is an evil, deadly addiction, and for smokers to insist on blowing their foul pollution onto other people is the very epitome of senseless selfishness. |
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Materialism and selfishness are not exclusively godless traits any more than decency and charity are exclusively religious ones. |
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It was out of selfishness that I invited you to go with me on that sightseeing trip and to the hayride. |
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I don't get to spend my money or my time with utmost selfishness. |
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Wouldn't it have been better if Ashley spilled the beans to Jake a little earlier, and some understandable selfishness came between the pair? |
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It is not possible to practise noninjury unless selfishness is given up in respect of all external matters. |
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They are mean, unhappy and inspired only by their fatal selfishness. |
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Another common criticism of the profit motive is that it is believed to encourage selfishness and greed. |
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But his action was never guided for a single moment by any consideration of personal or party selfishness. |
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He possesses all the necessary requisites of perfidy, selfishness, depravity, want of principle, etc. |
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Divinely indifferent to our selfishness, he is demonically rebellious to every claim of God or man that would oppose him. |
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In his capacity as princeps, selfishness and selflessness coexisted in his mind. |
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Schreier suggests that cynicism cannot be equated with quietism, nihilism, selfishness, or false consciousness. |
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He saw western Europe as torn by antagonisms engendered by economic rivalry and commercial selfishness. |
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Use of herself or himself in this way often indicates that the speaker attributes some degree of arrogance or selfishness to the person in question. |
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What I can't accept is the selfishness that they feel the need to shoot up in a public toilet, jeopordising the safety and health of everyone from kids, through to pensioners. |
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According to Trowbridge, the United States' current condition is the product of the degenerative principles of dishonesty, impurity, selfishness, and unlovingness. |
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