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I guess I wanted to help other people the way those writers helped me". 4. Marnie on Hannah's selfishness: "You're so selfish that when we lived together you put the fire extinguisher in your own bedroom so that you could have access to it first".

Do you think they were all so selfish that they did it — for three times union scale?

And since our genes are so selfish that they don't care a whit for the wisdom of Dawkins, the religious instinct will persist until evolution, not Richard Dawkins, takes us in another direction.

"Do you think they were all so selfish that they did it for three times union scale?" (He likes to mention that he paid the musicians more than he had to).

Cancer is, quite simply, our own cells that have turned so "selfish" that they no longer do their assigned roles (e.g. be a liver cell, be a colon cell, be a lung cell), and instead just start selfishly hogging nutrients, fooling nearby cells into helping them, multiply, and eventually destroy the body.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's visionary founder, criticized Pakistan's system of feudal power, in which rich landowners reaped profits from land worked by impoverished peasants, calling the system "vicious" and saying it made the rich "so selfish that it is difficult to reason with them".

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Now what is so selfish about that ("Union is on the wrong side again," Jan . 29?

Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs?

The only explanation is that the power of money... has never been so great or so insolent or so selfish and that its servants are placed in the highest reaches of the State".

We cannot be so selfish, so narrow minded that we carry policies which have disastrous effect outside our country.

It was just so selfish and irresponsible, and that's the stuff I'm sorry for.

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