![If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-the-irish-once-find-out-that-there-are-any-circumstances-in-which-they-can-get.jpg)
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To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. Chris Evert
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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. Dennis Prager
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For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance. Fred Funk
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. Eddie Van Halen
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What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves. Aaron Kampman
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It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches. Alan Cohen
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It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Phil McGraw
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Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity. Ludwig von Mises
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Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking. Issa Rae
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When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Albert Schweitzer
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Like Dougie (Weight) says, it's learning to win again. It's doing the little things that it takes to win, tonight was a prime example of that. The last two games were good examples of a lot of the leadership and a lot of the character in the room. Curtis Sanford
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Make no mistake about it ? I wanted the characters to know what we're doing, Michael Shea
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Luke's number will be called in situations like that. He showed a lot of character to drive the length of the floor and score.
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Looks like that's the character of what we have right now. Phil Jackson
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Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark. Stephnie Weir
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It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. Robert Toombs
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The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. Kurt Andersen
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Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people. David Scott
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Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously. Linda Tripp
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left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq. Hoshyar Zebari
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No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.
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No one in government is making hard choices, David Williams