Word: selfishnesses
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...Yusupov of Russia, I purchased a necklace consisting of 42 black pearls for a price which approximated $400,000. Said The New York Times: 'But who could have failed to remember that several things can be done with $400,000 that would produce higher pleasure, even from the selfish point of view; than can the gratification of the desire so common among savages and barbarians, and the possessors of child minds in general, for the hanging in convenient places about the body and clothing of shiny bits of metal and stone? This joy is innocent enough, in itself...
Five years, in pride and selfishness and universal shame we have bowed out heads over our little tasks and left the great task of establishing the peace of the world in the hands of our former allies, discouraged and hindered by our repudiation of the work we had begun. If others in those years have pursued selfish aims, we who set the example cannot blame them. If in those years, or in the years to come for which they prepared the way, there has been, or shall be, strife and bloodshed that our strength in the council of the world...
...that the peace of the world is necessary to our safety. Let it not be said that the United States of America is too blind to see that a world divided against itself cannot stand, too timid to take her place among the nations of the world, too selfish or too weak to aid them. Rather let it be said that no personal enmity, nor party rivalry, nor national selfishness, blindness, weakness, and timidity can hinder her from seeing that she cannot secede form the world without inviting war. The interests of all nations are as closely-united...
...listen. The attitude of the United States toward other nations must always be: "We do not argue with you. We tell you." Debate is unAmerican. . . . Watch for earthquakes, famines and the like. These visitations afford a chance to point to good-samaritanism. . . . Never try to understand Europe. ... Be as selfish as you like...
...ways of the world, and "developes" as fast as the most hopeful novelist could ask. She runs away form her second husband and, in a fit of abstraction, nearly settles down to a third Not from moral motives--that would be too Victorian--but merely for her own selfish happiness, she at length decides to return to home and her legal mate. Thus the book ends in a commonplace as a sop to the censorious...