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Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
-Tony Dorsett
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Tragedies Make You Realize How Selfish You

Tony Dorsett
Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
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It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. being wise selfish means being compassionate.
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I wasn't good enough for abnegation," i say, "and i wanted to be free. so i chose dauntless." "why weren't you good enough?" "because i was selfish." i say. "you were selfish? you aren't anymore?" "of course i am. my mother said that everyone is selfish," i say, "but i became less selfish in dauntless. i discovered there were people i would fight for. die for, even.
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Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. this is the irrelevant answer, when another evangelist says if america doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. this is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about america isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the reciprocal trade acts.
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Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. as we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
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If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. you look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. you organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!
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War is tragedy. the great war stories are tragedies. it's the failure of diplomacy. 'war and peace,' 'a farewell to arms,' 'for whom the bell tolls.' those are some of the greatest tragedies.
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