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...certainly wasn't current college students who voted Reagan into office in 1980, when post-baby boomers were just hitting adolescence. We're the selfish brutes who in our first presidential elections voted for Mike Dukakis, now in disgrace for trying to repair the Massachusetts economy...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Defending Our Generation | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...even as if it's just the conservatives, or the liberals, or the works, or the jocks who are selfish. It's almost everyone. Even those who volunteer for public service are as vain and self-centered as the rest. Their "helping other people" gets in the way with their dealing with you as a real person...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Cope With the Egos | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...Well, I have to tell you. This may sound terribly selfish, but I love the freedom that I have. I don't have to worry about anybody but myself. I don't have to worry about a man's wardrobe, or his relatives, or his schedule, or his menu, or his allergies. I would not be married again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with ANN LANDERS: Living By the Letter | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

Whyte has detected what may be a selfish motive behind the suburban corporate shift. He tracked 38 companies that left New York City over a ten- year period and discovered that 31 of them had relocated to within eight miles of the home of their chief executive officer. "I take that at face value," he says deadpan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busy Streets | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...thing about Communism is that it doesn't work. It tries to change human nature. This is its fundamental flaw. People are selfish. Give them an incentive to work, and they will. Give them a low-risk way to cheat on their taxes, and they will. We do, most of the time, what's in our own selfish best interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: I Was a Teenage Communist | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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