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selfishness

sel fish nuhs

  • n  stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

  • The peculiar greatness of Reinhold Messner is grounded in a pure form of selfishness.
  • What happened is that capitalism was reduced to Ayn Rand-ian selfishness.
  • And then he expressed more contrition for his selfishness.
News & Articles

  • Sound Off! (June 14)
    Red flags have be raised over the proposed development at the Las Cruces Country Club. Notions of upscale department stores and a Ritz Carlton-like hospital are white elephants in the making. The Country Club members can successfully end this potential financial disaster. They should forego their selfishness and donate the property to the city.
    June 15, 2013 - Silver City Sun-News
  • What Do Non-Christians Really Think of Us?
    Christians look at everyone else as if they've got targets painted on their foreheads. Nobody likes being hunted down or treated like someone else's project. Love does not seek to create clones of itself. Selfishness does.
    June 15, 2013 - The Christian Post
Quotes

  • Dan Gilbert in ABC News
    You simply don't deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal,Gilbert told fans in the letter. "If you thought we were motivated before tonight to bring the hardware to Cleveland, I can tell you that this shameful display of selfishness and...
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 940 News
    When they get hold of oil, they assume that oil is a free commodity and belongs to them and has wrongly been placed in other territories. ...... This is the spirit of selfishness and arrogance,Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.

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