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• n  concern for your own interests and welfare

• Psychologists from South Africa to Chicago have begun to recognize that extreme self-centeredness is the forest in these stories, and all the other things-- guns, games, lyrics .
• Struggling to avoid the sin of self-centeredness, Toynbee assumes a god's-eye-view detachment (he habitually speaks of the present in the past tense) that may be as much a form .
• Whether adopting a homeless man as a pet or sleeping with God (and then blowing Him off), Silverman puts the most adorable face imaginable on clueless self-centeredness.

• egoism
• egocentrism
• self-interest
• self-concern

• altruism

News & Articles

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• Ruby Davis: Feedback on recent letters to the Newton TAB
  Forgive me if I didn’t interpret your poem as you meant it (“A poem for President Obama,” by David Wenstrom, July 24). I’m quite unhappy with the way Obama is governing and this seems to be a criticism of his self-centeredness. If that is how you meant it, I’m relieved, because it seems that most of my friends and, indeed, most of Newton, are satisfied with what I would deem to be Obama’s dismal ...
  Aug. 12, 2013 - Newton Tab

Quotes

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• John Bolton in USA Today
  Bolton told the National Review website that "the speech was also typical of Obama in its self-centeredness and 'something for everybody' approach."
• Raphael Tuju in SomaliNet
  We cannot put up with people who call themselves leaders and oppose their government because of their personal self-centeredness and interest to stay in Kenya where they intend to destroy their government, Tuju said.
• Kent John Chabotar in Greensboro News Record
  Students and others are looking for a spiritual dimension to their lives in an age of materialism, conflict and self-centeredness,said Guilford College President Kent Chabotar, who is Catholic. "They want a sense of moral values whether or...