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The cost of leadership is self-interest.
Simon Sinek / Author
Leadership
Cost
Interest
Self
Self Interest
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Pindar / Poet
Wisdom
Self
Self Interest
Yield
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I think most people act in their self-interest.
Aubrey Mcclendon / Executive
People
Self
Self Interest
Thinking
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt / 32Nd U.s. President
Love
Affection
Enemy
Self
Self Interest
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The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
Claire Denis / Film Director
Self Interest
The Only Thing
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire / Poet
Nature
Inner Voice
Literature
Self
Self Interest
Voice
Inner
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Self Interest
Vices
Virtue
Useful
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
Warren Farrell / Activist
Men
Interest
Self
Self Interest
Defend
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Blind
People
Self
Self Interest
People Others Some People
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
Anthony De Mello / Writer
Interest
Self
Self Interest
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
Boris Johnson / Mayor Of London
Cameron
Cynical
Interest
Self
Self Interest
David
Purely
Supporting
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Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
Hillary Clinton / Former United States Secretary Of State
Definitions
Different
Self
Self Interest
Open
Part
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Franklin D. Roosevelt / 32Nd U.s. President
Ocean
Lost
Rivers
Sea
Self
Self Interest
Virtues
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We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee / Former Prime Minister Of India
Bihar
Enlightened
Self
Self Interest
World
Hope World Will
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes / Former U.s. Representative
Friendship
Friends
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Self
Self Interest
Who Your Real Friends Are
Rare
Without
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Names
Pretense
Real
Self
Self Interest
Vices
Virtue
Serviceable
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Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do.
Alex Scott /
Self Interest
Difficult Thing
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Milton Friedman / Economist
Economic
Political
Self
Self Interest
Somehow
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel / Philosopher
Men
Animal
Humanity
Self
Self Interest
Survival
Begins
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Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.
Seph Lawless /
Self Interest
Foremost
Sadly
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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
Vernon Howard / Author
Conscience
Imaginary
Self Interest
Switching
Virtue
According
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author
Boast
Disposition
Interest
Self
Self Interest
Stifled
Tender
Urging
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One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
Joseph Brodsky / Poet
Conscience
Self Interest
Quotes
Trigger
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Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.
Zephyr Teachout / Law Professor
Self Interest
Certain Point
Passes
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
Carlos Fuentes / Novelist
Concerned
Enlightened
Exercise
New World
Order
Philanthropy
Self
Self Interest
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya / Teacher
Education
Friendship
Truth
Bitter
Bitter Truth
Bitterness
Self
Self Interest
Behind
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People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
John Stossel / Reporter
Discovery
Fuel
Innovation
People
Prosperity
Self
Self Interest
Powers
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When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
Andrew Dominik / Film Director
Common
Groups
Organize
Self Interest
Tangled
Rules
Based
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We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Greater
Greater Good
Self Interest
Appeal
Leaders
Narrow
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The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Gough Whitlam / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Running
Horse
Memorable
Morality
Past
Race
Self Interest
Named
Gets
Nag
Post
Rarely
Runs
Whereas
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Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
Howell Raines / Journalist
America
Kansas
Self
Self Interest
Voting
Guide
Letting
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I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.
Timothy Morton /
Self Interest
Unhappy
Appealing
World People Understand
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It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
Democratic
Secure
Self Interest
States
Strategic
United States
United States Of America
Friend
Partner
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Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.
Jason Kander / Secretary Of State Of Missouri
Fulfilling
Self Interest
Life Your More
Few Things
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What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
Evan Bayh / Former U.s. Senator
Congress
Devotion
Members
Party
Self
Self Interest
Spirit
Welfare
Alike
Beyond
National
Required
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The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
William Sloane Coffin / Activist
Environment
Human Life
Ignorance
Self
Self Interest
Violence
Cause
Restrain
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When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.
Dean Ornish / Physician
Excuse
Self Interest
Stress
Actions
Chronic
Forgive
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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
Jonathan Kozol / Writer
Clever
Guilt
Neurotic
Self
Self Interest
Unhealthy
Assumed
Automatically
Protecting
Remarkably
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There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
John Dickerson /
Fighting
Self Interest
Standards
Yourself Your Important
Basic
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
Victor Davis Hanson / Historian
War
Fuel
Honor
Real
Self
Self Interest
Starting
Perceived
Shortages
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For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Claims
Determined
Self Interest
Sovereignty
Unlimited
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Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
John Hickenlooper / Governor Of Colorado
Empathy
Recognition
Regard
Self Interest
Benefit
Narrow
Solely
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In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working with their own demons on court.
Johanna Konta /
Self Interest
Demons
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Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.
Michael J. Knowles /
Honest
Party
Purpose
Self Interest
Both Parties
Democrats
Republicans
Unlike
Indeed
Parties
Political Party
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The emoluments clause is in the Constitution for a reason: We, as Americans, need to know that the president acts in our best interests, not his own self-interest.
Rashida Tlaib /
Self Interest
Acts
Best Interests
Clause
Interests
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher / Former United States Deputy Secretary Of State
Concern
Path
Russia
Self
Self Interest
Strain
Strong
Considerable
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It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
Michael Scheuer / Blogger
War
Appeasement
Endless
Self
Self Interest
Thinking
War Peace Better
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For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
John Polanyi /
Including
Liberty
Precedence
Scholarship
Self Interest
Addition
Interests
Requires
Sectarian
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Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
Eli Pariser / Activist
Able
Addresses
Common
Democracy
Self
Self Interest
Whole
Actually
Address
Public
Narrow
Outside
Problems
Requires
Step
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Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Elihu Root / Former U.s. Senator
Adherence
Differences
Passion
Prejudice
Real
Self
Self Interest
Suspicion
Regarding
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