So, technology is selfish technology is generous.

But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests

And it s in a sense the most selfish thing that we can do.

Every country must selfishly use a surge strategy to gain advantage.

This agenda might seem selfish, though understandable from the point of view of an oil billionaire.

When you read this prayer, it sounds incredibly selfish, self centered.

To that end and as a first step, the public information monopoly and its abuse for selfish purposes must be halted.

Why? Because the temes are selfish replicators and they don't care about us, or our planet, or anything else.

Well, I have to admit, actually, that I also had a very selfish reason for building Mathematica I wanted to use it myself, a bit like Galileo got to use his telescope 400 years ago.

The temptation to appease suffering populations with populist, selfish measures may grow as the crisis deepens.

Trading against others is regarded as an inherently selfish pursuit, even if it might have indirect societal benefits.

After all, living in a world that assumes we are homo economicus can encourage selfish habits. Fortunately, research suggests that such habits can be broken.

And he coughs a lot. Very egotistical he carries only one or two people and he asks always for more infrastructure.

Deep down, Greenspan must have believed that he was allowing Adam Smith s invisible hand to deliver the public good. But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests

With no need to concern themselves about elections, China s leaders can afford to plan for the longer term and do what is necessary without being impeded by petty selfish interests or a carping press.

While President Bashar al Assad s regime remains vicious and tyrannical, and some of its opponents motives remain altruistic, the conflict can no longer be defined simply as one of good versus evil.

Torn between Europe and Asia in cultural and political terms, victimized by a dark, narcissistic instinct that pervades their reading of their past and their visions of the future, it should surprise no one that Russia is now behaving like a revisionist power.

They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic.

Would you rather be fat and ugly or thin and sexy?

And the fax said, there should be songs, there should be an I want song, there should be a happy village song, there should be a love story and there should be a villain.

And as I said, the theory must be biologically accurate, it must be testable, and you must be able to build it.

The result is that other people become more valuable alive than dead, and violence declines for selfish reasons. As Wright put it, Among the many reasons that I think that we should not bomb the Japanese is that they built my mini van.

You re either playful or you re serious, and you can t be both.

They are exploited in order to satisfy the selfish appetites of a handful of irresponsible politicians who lust for power and are sometimes in the pay of multinationals greedy for sordid and disgraceful profits.

And it can be fun! That's the point of this talk it needn't be sterile. It needn't be bureaucratically untenable.

Rather than reinventing itself, Europe, under the pressure of the crisis and its own internal contradictions, threatens to revert to the national egoism and protectionism of the past.

But now, Porter wrote, after the depression and war, We began to listen to the idea that a hundred million citizens, acting through a central government, could achieve much more than a hundred million acting as separate selfish units.

Now, it could have killed us off. It could have killed us off, and maybe it nearly did, but you see, we don't know.

She wanted to be a teacher.

Good to be here.

You have to be patient.

You ought to be ashamed.

Sometimes love means you need to be firm, but you can do so lovingly.

Yes, there is a need for us to find a cure for HIV, to find an effective vaccine for malaria, to find a diagnostic tool that works for T.B., but I believe that we owe it to those who willingly and selflessly consent to participate in these clinical trials to do this in a humane way.

Though the authors expected the two factor theory to be the most effective, it actually proved to be deleterious in outcome.

Some would have preferred that it be stronger, others that it be more proactive.

Israel, as founding father David Ben Gurion warned, can be a Jewish state, it can be a democratic state, and it can be a state occupying the whole of historical Israel but it cannot be all three.

You should try to be more polite.

I stress that development must be sustainable.

The idea that art can actually evaluate the relationship between what it means to be in a picture, and what it means to be in a space. What is the difference?

You've got to have vision.

You cannot be serious.

You can't be serious.

She wants to be a singer.

You're supposed to be asleep!