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*For it's human nature. . .
to be selfish and to our own advantage to be selfish, unless we get
caught.
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-A. L. Herman
The Ways of Philosophy, 1990
Ch. 4 : The Way of Justice, "Republic: A Best Place That Is No Place",
"The Ring of Gyges"
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*Do what's good for you,
or you're not good for anybody.
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-Billy Joel
Turnstiles, 1976
"James"
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All men who know not where to look for truth
save in the narrow well of self, will find their own image at the bottom
and mistake it for what they are seeking.
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-James Russell Lowell
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People do not cooperate under the division
of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate
because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity
nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness
is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of
society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to
substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
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-Ludwig von Mises
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*A truly selfish man
cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.
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-Howard Roark, the hero in Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Four : Howard Roark, Ch. 11
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*'Howard, I . . . how can
I try to thank you, even for . . .'
'Don't thank me. If I do it, I'll have my own purpose. I'll expect to
gain as much as you will. Probably more. Just remember that I don't do
hings on any other terms."
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-Peter Keating and the hero Howard Roark,
in Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Four : Howard Roark, Ch. 8
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If any student comes to me and says he wants
to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering,
I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who
seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the
puzzles of nature.
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-Albert Szent-Gyorgy
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Most people hate egotists.
They remind them of themselves.
I love egotists.
They remind me of me.
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-Raymond Smullyan
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