Word: selfishnesses
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...issue upon which nearly all the most venerable of our teachers and sages have agreed is that man's troubles are the result of himself. That is, the selfish emotions and passions within himself. And any emancipation from these conditions must be accomplished for himself-by himself. Individually and alone. Maybe collectively later, but first as man and then as mankind Surely it is only childish dreaming that makes us hope we can come to live in Utopia without first becoming inward Utopians...
...said Gordon, "selfish or private interest must be ruled out. . . . Let us paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: Let it be 'regimentation of the people, by the people and for the people...
...well-played characters are honestly appealing -especially young Holden, as he tells the jury: "I hope what I am trying to say doesn't sound like flag-waving. I have always felt that flag-waving was something sacred and quiet, and not to be done for any selfish motive...
There is Aimee, the selfish, ambitious new teacher who becomes principal of the school by marrying the nephew of the school board's head, and who forsakes Claudine just as she thought she had found someone in whom to confide; there is Miss Sergent, the former headmistress, whom Claudine detests because she senses that the older woman's interest in her is beyond what it should be; and Docteur Dubois, a dashing young physician with whom Claudine falls in love as terribly and superficially as only girls of her age can. The worst moment of her life, when Dubois suddenly...
...British Government is still unable to realize the conflict between its selfish imperial interests and the necessity for defeating the Axis through the mobilization of all the democratic forces in the world. It has allowed men and women to die whose loyalty and potential contribution to the cause of freedom cannot be questioned...