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Asians must start with themselves if they are unhappy with their level of representation. The selfish desire to be secure, and the cowardly attitude of avoiding danger must be overcome in order to enable this minority community to want to be political...
...mentors indulge in selfish pleasures. Chafing obligations are cast off. Instead of, "How can we excite students' love for learning? How can we make them wise? How can we pass on the best from our past?", we have, "What do I want to teach today...
...months, says one quant who has made the transition, to change a shy, bookish type into a ruthless money-making machine. What's required, says this alumnus of the system, is "to lose your sense of decency. You have to be rude, brash, you have to be selfish. Also you have to start ignoring 90% of what you are told." He describes, perhaps admiringly, a vulnerable Ph.D. from Princeton University. This fellow wore $50 suits and thick glasses. He was painfully polite. Transformed, he became the quant from Hell. "He's got this personality suddenly. He could eat these guys...
...audience member questioned whether homosexuals weren't being "selfish" in adopting children because a gay parent might provide a distorted view of sexuality...
...Clinton calls routine inquiries into her cozy dealings with a sleazy Arkansas savings and loan a "well organized" and "well financed" campaign by those with "a different political agenda" and "financial" motives. Stands to reason. Who could oppose an apostle of political virtue but those who, for the most selfish of reasons, wish to stop her good works? The President angrily declares that "the American people can worry about something else" than his wife's "moral compass." The Clintons do not just deny wrongdoing in Whitewater. They take offense at the very suggestion...