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«The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
automatic, cafeteria, cafeterias, comforts, depriving, elevator, Elevators, escalator, escalators, merchant, populace, self-service, self interest, specious, volition
«Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self interest»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
elements, interest, moral, moral sense, self interest, springs, spring up
«We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics»
«We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Economics,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
economics, heedless, morals, self interest
«The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.»
«When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere. Then only can he see that what is unpleasant to us is no»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
detached, insistent, self interest
«We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
caprice, caprices, commenced, common interest, evening gown, gown, gowns, intercourse, pattern, self-will, self-willed, self interest, teacup, The Creatures, transaction, transactions, whim
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