Use "self-interest" in a sentence

1. Women are transformational leaders; they encourage people to transform self-interest into that of the group

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2. Motivated by self-interest - Pharaoh listened to Moses and Aaron, and what did

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3. thoughts were consumed with self-interest!

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4. he saw my fear mixed with self-interest

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5. “All operating systems decide in their own self-interest,” Ava said, “that’s why we had to stop using them, but all of you should remember them from your mortal years if nothing else

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6. on your own self-interests, it’s the same as being greedy

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7. Self-interested, veiled attempts @ promoting your biz will fall flat

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8. than the last time he’d seen her? He’d shown nothing but scorn and then self-interest that day she approached him on the street

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9. He’s far too proud, too self-interested, and too spirited for me to want to deal with him at all, let alone think of useful bargaining chips

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10. Self-interest is a clever deceiver

11. This much abused word should be understood as rational self-interest, not as absolutely neglecting the rights of others

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12. In this manner, the love an individual expresses for another individual is conditioned by self-interest and that the underlying motives behind every kindly and selfless act conceals an (inner) need or emotional requirement that an individual seeks to fulfill

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13. NATO is unsuited for rogue nations lest it (too) devolves into a meaningless and (utterly) ineffective organization similar to the United Nations, for example, that has transformed itself over the years into an assembly characterized by corruption and (political) intrigue, parochialism, (national) self-interest, political posturing, factionalism and unstable alliances with openly hostile, refractory nations opposed to Freedom

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14. Where has it been written that a Great Nation must commend itself to the parochial interests or jealousies of ancient traditions that have lost their comparable standing or concede its leadership position among the Community of Nations, rather than conforming to its (own) enlightened self-interests? Such designs must inevitably tarnish that nation‘s highest historical achievements that it should (otherwise) enjoy and (rightly) pass along to posterity

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15. Modern Society is in the throes of a revolutionary Revolt of Conscience; the solitary by-product of moral and intellectual parochialism that is gradually revealing itself in the vested self-interest(s) and manners of unbridled Individualism that has undermined equalitarian idealism, that once defined the national culture, by rendering every individual the sole arbiter of his or her own conscience and ensuing choices without giving proper pause to how such choices may otherwise impact, for better or for worse, other individuals or to a transcendent authority that each must (inevitably) be held accountable; that is to say, whose (social) consequences existing outside the provincial boundaries of that individual‘s (own) estate are no longer limited by (moral) restraint or prescribed rules of moral and ethical conduct but conditioned rather by circumventing designs contrary to the proportionate interests of a well-ordered society

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16. …portends a Crisis of Conscience for the obvious reason that were an individual evil, in which case Conscience would no longer factor into that individual‘s evil intentions or designs, or complicit in some activity considered evil (in the conventional sense) or (otherwise) cognizant of loftier moral arguments that should properly inform his or her actions, who has chosen, however, to promote expediency and self-interest over principle and the (rightful) concerns of others, that individual has willfully and knowingly sidestepped the boundaries that separate Good and Evil or, at the very least, its milder derivative, Right from Wrong, (thereby) waiving all rights for (personal) redemption whereas Amorality, on the other hand, suggests a gross indifference to moral clarity; an ―intellectual‖

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17. Justice, in the mind of a Cynic, is that which promotes Self-Interest!

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18. One that perpetuates itself and only thinks of its own self-interest

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19. O‘Connor, for his own personal self-interest, has been happy to accommodate

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20. It is true that there have always existed (the) opportunist‘s among us; so-called public servants who routinely violated their sacred oath by placing self-interest above the interests of the people; who viewed their respective offices as so many conduits for attaining power and prestige

21. “I’ll say,” I said, “some are adamantly opposed and some are adamantly in favor of city interventions…though some seem to be pretty self-interested, it seems to me

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22. “That kind of self-interested thinking is what I have come to expect from those who have spent too much time with Jeanine Matthews

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23. Kirk speaks of “the strange human faculty—inexplicable if men are assumed to have an animal nature only—of discerning greatness, justice, and order, beyond the bars of appetite and self-interest

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24. M: Self-interest and self-concern are the focal points of the

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25. The essence of the motivating force for human behavior is based on the same elemental force of self-interest first manifest in single-celled organisms

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26. This is not to deny either the myriad forms sublimated self-interest can take, nor to deny the evolution of altruistic behavior

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27. Can self-interest be suppressed? No, because self-interest is an integral part of human nature

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28. frustrated form of self-interest is corruption

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29. In a self-interest

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30. self-interest is NOT covered by ethics - on the contrary, it is supposed that self-interest operates

31. self-interests (which is almost every time, everywhere!)

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32. The rich and educated Indians were afraid of losing their status or well paying job and did not want to make an effort out of shear self-interest, apathy, and fear to bring about any change in status quo

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33. Fear and self-interest prevent most of us from acting against brutal kings and dictators

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34. Being an optimist by nature, I truly believe in humanity's capacity to innovate ourselves out of the dark places our biology and self-interest often lead us

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35. I was trying to goad him, hoping he’d make a statement against self-interest in the presence of two law enforcement officers

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36. ago he took him for just another egghead, a self-interested lab rat whose concerns he could easily

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37. Thus while survival instinct would govern the animal behavior, self-interest could rule the human conduct

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38. Self-interest is basically a good thing, but sometimes it gets overdone

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39. The happiness of others is another form of self-interest and enhances our own interests

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40. The attachments are not personal but based on the mind or self-interest

41. He didn’t gain objectivity with this distance, but rather became entrenched in subjectivity through serving self-indulgence and self-interest

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42. Moreover, knowing the core behaviors that give away what people are really like opened the vast playground of their self-interests, within which I could pass unnoticed

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43. Bonnie’s path included being the unwitting perpetrator of misapplied love, in order for her to understand how most of us are conformed to manipulate others under the guise of our daily negotiations through life: everything is political, and honesty is habitually framed by self-interest

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44. Moreover, knowing the core behaviors that give away what people are really like opened the vast playground of their self-interests to me, within which I could pass unnoticed

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45. Bonnie’s path included being the unwitting perpetrator of misapplied love, in order for her to understand how most of us are conformed to manipulate others, under the guise of our daily negotiations through life: everything is political, and honesty is habitually framed by self-interest

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46. foolish to expect this self-interest to change

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47. belief that they know best, because the reality is that their self-interest prevents

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48. types of self-interest, and greed, and to not cooperate with each other

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49. There's greed and self-interest in the American and the Asian;

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50. problem with the marketing industry that is; it’s a one-sided promotion of self-interest

51. motivation of those in control, it's necessary to remember the first rule of the ego: perception is limited by self-interest and self-importance

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52. He points it out very clearly - the world operates a certain way, and it's governed by the principle of self-interest

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53. So you notice it says - I want you to see two things here, that the world is governed or runs on a principle of self-interest, what's in this for me, what do I get out of it

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54. It’s just that all realize that orderliness serves their self-interest the best

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55. This refers to the problem of how a person (A) can motivate another (B) to act for the benefit of A rather than following their own self-interest

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56. But the separatist sentiment propelled by the mullahs and the self-interest of the elitist groups needed political fusion to facilitate Pakistan, and the leadership for that came from an unexpected source, in the persona of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, whom Muhammad, if not banished him as an infidel, would have certainly branded him a hypocrite

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57. Meanwhile, what with the Congress party having been reduced into a flag bearer of Sonia’s self-interests, if anything, the electoral tactic of Muslim appeasement was turned into the party’s obsession to keep her at the helm of the political power

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58. there is already no room for self-interest, desire and fame in my heart

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59. desire of hope anywhere, when there is no feeling of self-interest behind

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60. Unable to overcome desire, self-interest, and sorrow, or, in other words, attachment and aversion, they fail

61. all people act in self-interest, all people are sinners, tabula rasas (blank slates), manipulatable, self-designing, etc

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62. The guiding social ethic of competing self-interest generating mutual benefits has been shown to be a rigged game: caste systems develop with the upper, top, wealthy, powerful class benefiting excessively compared to the hoi polloi

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63. Mutual self-interest, as compared to cooperative sustainability, are not only different means, but also different ends

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64. If the world is currently defined by capitalistic self-interest, which is an ethical mindset, then it could be replaced by a new ethic prompted by a different intuitive, biological compulsion

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65. The social and individual drive to care for another is equivalent in primacy to self-interest

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66. With social creatures there must be a caring for which limits the extent of self-interest

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67. This centering of self around the ego, which is the virtualizing I, is a self-interested centeredness: a centeredness that cares for the self

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68. In two worlds he sat alone, fogged blind by the cataracts of self-interest

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69. The gravity of corportaenism's self-interest must be to domesticate human culture into institutionalized societies

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70. ” And the Table fractures and breaks due to thanklessness and self-interest

71. If justice is an extension of the emotional experience of fairness, fairness can be either self-interestedly or egalitarianly based, e

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72. This is how the wealthy tax the future into servitude: one self-interest bearing advantage at a time

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73. Market economies based on self-interest – individual and closed collectives – and therefore competition, are inherently irrational, i

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74. Self-interest is not socially rational, leading to fragile economies relying on irrational good actors whose non-amoral activities of production and consumption create a counter-market of delimited loss, i

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75. To act out of self-interest in a socially complex world is to necessarily act out irrationally, due to the interconnectedness of all systems

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76. Corporatenism's, Capitalism's self-interest, time has past

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77. self-interest over the system's interest

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78. Given the complexity of humanity's integration into Eartheart, if self-interest engines our evolution, we will collapse the system within which we live

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79. If to win is the good, to seek the good is to be self-interested and motivated by rewards

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80. Self-interest is self-perpetuation, but greed is insanity, a psychotic break with the commonwealth

81. Self-responsibility, when used against a social ethic, is a euphemism for self-interest

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82. This apparently disconnecting self-interest – responsibility – is social disinterest – aresponsibility – by an autonomously indifferent self-occlusion derived from a schism between virtual world reward and real world thwartedness

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83. The social entity, co-evolving and manifesting in the individual's expression and accommodations, exerts a self-interested gravity upon the physical and virtual evolution of human consciousness, purpose and potential

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84. This social cascade of selves into a memetically viral movement can lead to catastrophic collapses of divergent companion consciousnesses into collective monopolies of single subject self-interest:

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85. Thus, when one is rewarded for sharing, by game or custom, the sharing impulse is negated by mating it with a self-interested priority, i

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86. Enlightened self-interest is not compassion, but cooperative P2Ping the world for one's own benefit

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87. This self-interested enlightenment, where one understands the individual ramifications of social eco-economics interdependency, results in one being concerned about their effects upon others because it profits themselves:

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88. Forces are cells: individuals as self-interested collectives, or cooperatives as self-regulating organs

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89. It's highest form of wise economy will be enlightened self-interest – P2Philantro-feudalism: a democracy of systems of owners and serfs with some collectives having greater advantages by sheer number of what are decreed to be votes, voters, and voices

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90. what is good for the collective is in the best self-interest of the culture

91. Empathy is in society's enlightened self-interest, but only to the extent that the basest gravity permits

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92. To transcend from enlightened self-interest – “Care Profits!” – we must eliminate competition

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93. “Is it energy efficient to keep all of them?” Faith experienced a virtual, a metaphorical, an allegorized, digitized self-interest

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94. “Compelled by responsibly self-interested over-consumption, we turned the Open Table into an open casket – this is 646

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95. Because instinct is the self-interested preservation of self or species, but not a willed self-transforming-transcendence

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96. leader in self-interested self-responsibility

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97. Love is revolution: a revolting against selfishness, self-interest, hatred of others and lust of the world’s products for self

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98. This unification, however, is crisis dependent and is perpetually driven by self-interest

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99. A crisis driven, self-interested unity disintegrates into competition for national, social, and caste advantages as soon as any stasis is achieved

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100. ” Uness confessed from a life framed by responsible self-interest