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1. Right actions are without self-serving aim or purpose, and are spontaneous and natural
2. As such they cave in to greed for wealth, power and other self-serving reasons
3. ) He unwittingly exposes the left"s ignorant, self-serving interpretation of our Constitution by referring to the chimera of a „living constitution
4. endorsements, playing up to fans but not for the fans, not really, and highlight reels that burnish self-serving credentials, begs the question, how about the love for the game for its own sake that has (seemingly) become secondary to self-centered attitudes and inflated egos; where gamesmanship has superseded sportsmanship? Bizarre behavior, taunting and jeering an opponent, especially common in higher profiled sports, has (sadly) provided the modern athlete with a receptive audience
5. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
6. Nevertheless, this self-serving has-been/know-nothing is considered competent enough to instruct impressionable young women on the ―deleterious‖ effects of food products that have traditionally provided nutritional sustenance for millions of people but whose nutritional value is suddenly being called into question by Animal Rights fanatics; many of whom would otherwise consider a rodent the moral equivalent of a child!
7. Yes, they follow the dictates of their own hearts and give heed to their own self-serving desires
8. Carter‘s ―transformation‖ as a latter day, self-serving populist supporter of
9. Performing ―good‖ deeds for their own sake because it is good to do so does not address the question: by what conventional standards are such acts of goodness, good to begin with; and assuming that they are, whether the ―Will to Goodness‖ is driven by some inherent factor; that is to say, an (essential) moral goodness that resides within the doer of good deeds or conditioned, rather, by rewards and punishment, reciprocity or perhaps, fear, in which case, such acts of ―goodness‖, sullied by questionable (intent), are motivated, in part, by self-serving designs that are not (inherently) good in themselves
10. Naturally, the help was as self-serving as it was altruistic: two of the new phone lines Sylvia paid for ended up in the stables
11. Was Cain mentioned first because man’s carnal (that is, self-serving) nature came into being before it was ameliorated by a painfully long, gradual recognition of the primacy of a Creator, in whose name and through whose teachings we seem to have learned the greater good of sharing, as with Abel?
12. "In a world of self-serving, self-appointed, know it all marketing gurus, it was extremely tough for me to
13. The chairman of MECHA at that time replied with a self-serving letter full of inaccuracies as to the origin and initial name and purpose of the club
14. There are those who are self-serving, who seek advancement at all cost, who clamour and climb over others to be in front, their self-importance and ambition destroys all thought of helping others, they are people who can ‘kill with a look’, who can destroy with a word, who want and maintain power for prestige and status
15. 57 Seriously, what a self-serving bitch that woman was
16. would be a self-serving victimization type of vulnerability, but I
17. So regardless of any self-serving elements and at what I now consider to be the tender age of forty-nine, he passed his personal wisdom and business philosophy along to me in a letter dated July 22, 1959
18. I’m not an advocate of scaring the hell out of people with hypothetical, self-serving claims in order to take their money or secure political gain by arguing that the balance of nature and the natural order of things (including human nature) should be, or can be meaningfully changed
19. It was too self-serving, one-sided, and too long for a thirty minute program
20. “No need at all! Our God has spoken clearly enough even for Pharaoh! Look at all these self-serving tokens of Pharaoh’s vaunted greatness,” he said, pointing at the many, grandly worded inscriptions
21. that self-serving, snobbish, sanctimonious Preppie Catcher wanted
22. To him, people are inherently and mostly self-serving, lazy, dull-minded, greedy and wrong, so he does not care
23. Was he displaying the same single-mindedness and toughness that characterized his noted forebears or was he a self-serving shadow of these time magnified ancestors? What would his namesake, great Granddad Can Martin say? What‘s the difference the sweating rancher rationalized, no one would know what he did tonight much less his illustrious ancestors
24. This is not a self-serving interpretation of this verse as the context of
25. Contrary to what some had predicted, Nancy Laplante had not used even once her position or powers to promote her own personal interests, showing flawless honesty and fairness in a region accustomed to corrupt, self-serving politicians and leaders
26. orientation is too lopsided, too self-serving, too inhumane
27. Their self-serving actions refute the
28. doing so out of genuine concern and not some self-serving interest
29. the true One in you, self-serving by selfless service
30. For it’s neither flesh, or blood, not the effects of the plague of that we wrestle against, but the spirit of the carnal mind that has been inflicted on many by the infectious words from the self-serving religious leaders
31. Was Spalding as clever and as cunning as he wanted people to think? Or was he merely an unwittingly inept and short-sighted opportunist motivated by his self-serving interests who was used by someone wanting to keep their identity secret in the land deal? Perhaps whoever that party was really had other motives in getting Spalding involved
32. Gods’ church is a People, not a place, that have been called out of the fearful, judgmental, rebellious, covetous, fault-finding, manipulative, vain, haughty, arrogant self-serving control that the man-made structure we call church embedded in the mind of man
33. And as if to reinforce his image as an egotistical self-serving monster Stalin even had all of the old Bolshevik leadership from Lenin’s time executed, all excepting himself, of course
34. The institution of education has been a self-serving monster intent on consuming more time and money instead of
35. Because the self-serving psychopath does not think as other men
36. Greedy and self-serving nations like the United States, China and India are
37. Jacques wondered why the Protector, Thuli Madonsela, having resisted pressure from four Cabinet Ministers and several other self-serving government sycophants, had not taken the final step in finding that Zuma had mislead Parliament
38. Why bother about him as he’d been reduced for long as a political mascot of the slavish-minded of the self-serving Nehru family that hijacked his name to grind its dynastic axe! What an irony it is that his party that sundered the British yoke should have rendered the political reins into Italian hands? Bemoan the congress party
39. If not for Goring’s self-serving advice the flower of the British youth might’ve perished on the sands of Dunkirk and the Nazis would have been the masters of the World sans the Goring Syndrome – the self-serving ways of one that imperil others’ course would serve the unintended in unexpected ways
40. “Maybe the corporate health sector symbolizes the Goring Syndrome like nothing else; the assorted diagnostic reports sought by the self-serving doctors that rob their patients’ savings would only serve the auxiliary health services; even conceding that the capital involved in setting up a corporate hospital is mind-boggling, begging for returns on investment, that the doctors there allow themselves to turn into con men to trick the sick is in deed sickening; I wonder how these are better than the pimps fleecing the whores; in spite of their daytime black deeds, the fact that they are able to sleep at nights shows that they have self-anesthetized their collective consciences; even as Hippocrates could be turning in his grave, wonder how these fare in hell as and when they reach there
41. And in the modern era, as the naivety of a Nehruvian socialistic pattern of society perpetuated the Islamic legacy of celebrating poverty, Mother India remained a pauper in the vice-like grip of the State, tightened further by his self-serving daughter Indira, till Narasimha Rao unshackled it by the Manmohanamic wrenches!
42. However, in the end, it was the principled opposition from a handful of otherwise self-serving Congressmen that put paid to her eagerness to ascend the gaddi
43. Self-servingly forgotten and at the back of Byron’s mind was his continual incitement of her actions, he had not pushed that hard, her feelings were already there but restrained by consequence and reason
44. Our culture is intertwined with pervasive corporate interests that are directly aligned with their self-serving profit motives
45. they are evil, they hate each other because they are self-serving which
46. their claims are inaccurate and self-serving, and are a primitive ecological generalization that
47. Andreas was an arrogant, self-serving bastard, and a glory hound of the worst kind, but even he had some sense of honor, especially to his men
48. “Many of you remember me as a self-serving double-crosser but know that
49. There would not be self-serving and primal verbal attacks that exist through the carnality of flesh and blood
50. other than the usually shallow and self-serving