Word: selfishness
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Honestly, though, independence is about being a little selfish sometimes and indulging in the things you love. Enjoy time with your friends and family, focus on your school work and extracurriculars...
...Loker Commons, assuming some FMO janitor will mop it up. Sometimes when that happens we’re even glad to expunge the calories we consumed at John Harvard’s, worried that they’ll go to our thighs. Which type of puking is more selfish and reprehensible...
...live in will go down in history as a time of intense class struggle in the world arena," Gorbachev stated on Lenin's birthday in 1983. "Imperialist reaction can hide behind many masks, but it cannot hide the fact that its foreign course is dictated, even today, by narrowly selfish class interests...
...would be easy to assign a moral to this story—the amazingly selfish “be good to your friends all the time, because you never know when you might need them” certainly applies—but the real strength is showing that there are no clear morals in real interactions. There’s just life and death, leaders and followers...
...patriarchy that cannot be co-opted or assimilated. "Feminism," she writes, "is in a state I call blessed: its ends and its means are identical." How feminism will overthrow patriarchy goes unexplained, though she believes it requires the replacement of power with pleasure. This is not the narrow, selfish pleasure of patriarchy, but "a gratified response to quality" that will somehow blossom into compassion and community...