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...odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York State Lottery. He could hurt you: He could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill concealed, embarrassed distate. He could turn out to be awkward, selfish, inept even totally incompetent." So says Vinnie Miner...
...happy, and that Americans love to be happy. But where are there people who do not want to be happy, and what proof is there that Americans, more than anyone else, seek happiness at the expense of reality? For that matter, what proof is there that Americans are especially selfish, or that those who preferred Reagan care not a whit for the poor, or are cruising for a war with the Soviets? Most citizens are as generous as they are competitive, and have mixed and turbulent feelings on everything from public education to the arms race. A vote for Reagan...
However, Americans can also learn from the patterns of Chinese relationships between people, Yang says, "In China, we're not so selfish as in America, we can take care of our neighbors, do housework for them..." Although Chinese are not as open as the Americans, "we Chinese are shy," Yang chuckles, but "our heart is very sincere...
...there is undeniably a certain element of hypocrisy and snobbery in all the talk of revived elegance, but when was it ever otherwise? And what is the harm in behaving well-or trying to behave well, or pretending to behave well-for selfish reasons? It was a kind of historical aberrancy for large numbers of people to think, as they did in the '60s, that life could be improved by boorish self-indulgence. And if there is now a return to more mannerly behavior, it is not necessarily a result of a new political conservatism. "I think...
Hoping to raise $5,000 for charity organizations and to debunk what they called a reputation as selfish profit maximizers, several business school student organizations last night kicked off a weekend of charity fund-raising activities...