Word: selfish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brave deeds of southern men are part of the common heritage of American glory. Moreover, we all know that the young men and youths who took part in that war were made better men, morally, mentally, and physically. Such service ever has been the great counteracting influence against the selfish aims and cares of everyday life. A man who engages in trade or toil, buys and sells by the yard and pound, and as the years roll on becomes as narrow and mean as his smallest measure. But war breaks out, his country calls, he throws aside all personal interests...
...problem, Mr. Tagore first established the assumption of the actuality of self and that the fundamental property of self is its individuality. Not the annihilation of self but the separation of it from the tyranny of the sensual desires is the supreme goal of the philosophy of India. Selfish pleasures are in truth self-destructible. Ignorance is the only fetter which binds the self to these pleasures. Therefore, sinfulness is not contained in the original nature of man to be destroyed by God alone, but may be wiped out by the destruction of ignorance...
...Advocate have a rare opportunity of performing a lasting and sorely needed service to their university. Should it be thrown away because of petty personal considerations. Is not he greater who foregoes personal gratification that he may render his community a service than he who by his selfish ambition continues to injure both those directly concerned and the community as a whole. A. SENIOR
...important consideration at the present time is that the six great foreign powers do not interfere in Chinese affairs with selfish motives. Since the revolution the United States alone of the foreign powers has been trusted by China...
...principle that makes for the highest type of civilization. Carlisle remarked of the French Revolution that everyone wanted to reform the world, but no one began by reforming himself. Great moral improvements come from the conviction of moral obligation rather than from outside forces stimulated by selfish motives. Let no one think that he can manage property rightly with the utmost benefit to himself, or the last farthing of immediate profit to his fiduciaries. Let him not try to square his obligations wholly with his interests. Duty in every relation in life involves some sacrifice, or it would have...