Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Must Phillips Brooks House look on its environment as one comparable to a busy, inherently selfish city? True; college is selfish in that the sincere student comes realizing that he is about to devote four of the best years of his life to the process of analysing his own personality and directing it into such channels as will develop his peculiar talents and capabilities to the utmost. But this is not the whole story: If it were, each one of as would go forth to an enlightened hermitage. All this attention to self is subordinate to a more fundamental urge...
...been respectable, conscientious and vaguely approved of"--certainly as much as may be said of any similar organization in any community; it is not reasonable to demand at Harvard a greater interest in Phillips Brooks House than it would receive, on its own merits in a busy, inherently selfish city...
...origin. They are doing nothing to keep alive the ideals and institutions of free constitutional government. They are trying to debauch and debase every Senator and every public man who refuses to turn his back upon his country to surrender his convictions and obey the behests of selfish, morbid, contemptible and corrupt dollar aristocracy...
...There have been doubts in times yet recent, whether culture were not selfish; whether men of refined tastes and manners could love Liberty, and be ready to endure hardness for her sake...
Henry Ford: "In a magazine article on income taxes, I declared that I object to high surtaxes because they hurt business. 'But,' said I, 'from a purely selfish personal standpoint, it does not matter to me whether I am taxed 1% or 99%, for I could live as I live now on 1% of my income...