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“National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.”

Individual Energy Progress Industry Individuality Vices Selfish Selfishness Decay Idleness Uprightness

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.”

Humans Government Opportunity Individual Wise Achievement Spring Selfish Motive Remove Unfairness Obstruction Individual Achievement

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.”

Feels Moments Dies Individual Tragedy Selfish Patriotic Routine Insensitive Provoked Tithe Commemoration

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.”

Men Success Individual Interest Selfish Marketplace Selfish Interest Individual Success

Author:Edmund Burke

“The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.”

Ifs Needs Important Passion Individual Understanding Steps Rights Mere Sake Satisfaction Stores Selfish Realization Civilized Civilized Society Susceptibility Individual Happiness

Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.”

Individual Intelligent Selfish Unintelligent

Book:Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason

Source: Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reason

“Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.”

Self Purpose Individual Interest Ambition Selfish Pursue Motivated Self Interest Indulgence Sense Of Self Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Self Indulgence Glorification Self Glorification Selfish Ambition

Book:Humility: True Greatness

Source: Humility: True Greatness

“The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.”

Way Has Beens Made Soul Self Spirit Individual Gone Plans Wonderful Sacrifice Fashion Cold Independent Forgiving Selfish Kingdoms My Way Accomplished Willingness Loyal Living My Life

Author:Woodrow Wilson