Word: selfishnesses
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...concepts are startling?and disturbing. Conflict between parents and children is biologically inevitable. Children are bora deceitful. All human acts?even saving a stranger from drowning or donating a million dollars to the poor?may be ultimately selfish. Morality and justice, far from being the triumphant product of human progress, evolved from man's animal past, and are securely rooted in the genes...
Thus the females evolved as sterile workers who cooperate socially for genetically selfish reasons...
...since the marriage began in the late 19th century, I Do, I Do is almost unbelievably sexist in its entire conception. As Agnes, Adrianne Angel plays a housewife who is innocent and fairly childish, but who provides the family's stability. As the husband, Ray Dash is the rather selfish head of the household who manages to make all the family's decisions despite his dependence on Agnes--although, predictably, she figures out early on in the relationship how to manipulate him into agreeing with her. I Do, I Do was written in the mid-'60s, but it still makes...
...lobbyists have come out of the woodwork," said Jimmy Carter with obvious anger last week. "Selfish special-interest groups," he complained, were spreading"misinformation" about one of his pet projects: a new federal agency to guard consumer interests. The target of Carter's angry words was none other than the U.S. business community, whose support he has been ardently seeking since he took office. Led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, businessmen have mounted a lobbying campaign that may kill the agency's chances...
Richard Fisher was another close friend of Beth's. Sometimes she wondered why they got along so well. She was quiet and gentle and had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. He was brash, selfish and ambitious. He had decided to be a lawyer in eighth grade, and Beth suspected that he really wanted to be a senator, if not the president. But despite his straight and narrow career plans, he had an awful lot of trouble dealing with his personal life. Once every two or three months, he would call Beth and spew...