"We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others."

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Mortimer Adler

#Selfish Quotes #Concerned Quotes

“For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord. . . . God has saved for the finalinning some of His strongest and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. That is where you come in, for you are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God. . . .”
“I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: And Other Poems”, p.195
“It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.”
“You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes â€“ the walls, the walls!”
“The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”

Source : "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Watson Winston, 1928.
“Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat.”
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

Source : Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage
“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.”

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