Humans are capable of far more than selfishness and materialism.

Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act.

The solidarity of nations should always prevail over national egoism.

The Chinese are comforted in their self image by the world s combination of admiration for their dynamism, greed for the market they constitute, and apprehension for the competition they represent.

But what they see is small mindedness and the pursuit of narrow self interest.

To add insult to injury, self interest has been portrayed as altruism.

Since then, we have turned away from advocacy of selfishness, but we have not recovered an independent moral language.

Among the French of 1835, however, the doctrine of self interest had produced egotism no less blind.

Egoism and self interest prevented them from realizing that Puerto Rico and the United States were married and their divorce would be harmful to both.

Perhaps there are some non utopian ways of transcending selfish interests and doing what is necessary.

But we cannot be complacent that the forces of national egoism will remain in check.

And yet the behavior of the EU and its most important member states has been irresolute and dithering, owing to national egotism and a breathtaking absence of leadership.

The diary contains about 200,000 words describing selfless thoughts with enthusiastic comments on Mao and the inspiring nature of the Party.

The Almighty placed humans on earth to develop it, to institutionalize justice, to overcome their egoistic tendencies and to praise no lord but the Almighty.

The Bolivian people has gone through difficult times recently and is selflessly and maturely reinvigorating its democratic process as an essential element of life in our Republic.

A good illustration of our commitment is the unselfish contribution of our armed and security forces in several parts of the world, including Haiti, the Balkans and Afghanistan.

Anyway, that completely unselfish and fruitful travesty of logic is dressed up as a total absence of national ambition and as total concern for the welfare of the general membership.

We recognize the selfless commitment of United Nations staff, and strongly condemn all violent attacks against the security of personnel engaged in United Nations operations.

It requires more schools and fewer guns more universities and fewer aircraft carriers.

Nor can we overlook the banal bargaining of European leaders, the quarrels over budgets, and the rise of national egoisms whenever elections loom.

In the current climate of anxiety and uncertainty, policymakers must ensure strong communication and coordination, avoid beggar thy neighbor policies, and guard against protectionism.

Most of our local authorities, when they sit down to plan for the next five, 10, 15, 20 years of a community, still start by assuming that there will be more energy, more cars, more housing, more jobs, more growth, and so on.

There is more in Hyman Minsky, and perhaps more still in Charles Kindleberger.

Israeli settlers and their supporters then gather even more energy to expand onto more Palestinian land, build more exclusively Jewish settlements, and destroy more Arab homes before the so called freeze comes into effect.

More bombings.

We must enhance our capacity and mobilize more and more domestic resources.

And the profound realization for me is that, if this works, the concept of the selfish gene gets kicked up a level, and we really start talking about selfish matter.

Such beggar thy neighbor policies in the 1930 s aggravated and deepened the Great Depression.

More exports means more AIDS. And that effect is really big.

An Even More Dismal Science

Deal more cards

Additional deficit spending

More on the story here.

I'm going to save more money.

More Europe in security terms means more Alliance.

HebaBendak I wonder how bashar is gonna celebrate his birthday. hmm his men will probably rape more women and kill more children as his b day gift.

With more of these groups, there will be more rights violations and illegal practices from their part.

Usually, low interest rates lead firms to borrow more to invest more, and greater indebtedness is matched by more productive assets.

We're just packing in columns, so that we'd have more neocortical columns to perform more complex functions.

More information may be leading not to better knowledge, but to more confusion.

Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act. Monti should not risk European stability for his personal benefit.

More Trade, Less Hunger

Your cat wants more food.

They require extra help.

I'm going to need some more time.