Word: selfishly
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Meanwhile, at other schools, there is still the specter of conservatism. The specter looms, not because students of this generation are more selfish, but because they are unwilling to support a moral hierarchy that devalues their own blameless aspirations...
...consultants because it’s evil, or because you’re “selling out to the man,” or because you’re participating in a system of corporate global hegemony. Leave ethics out of it. You should avoid these jobs for selfish reasons...
...boils down to what we learned in Ec 10—the class that teaches us not only how to be more selfish, but how to justify it. One of the first things that the Arbiter of Objectivity himself, Marty Feldstein, taught us was that, in every choice we make in life, we must make a cost-benefit analysis. We make hundreds of cost-benefit analyses every day, weighing options as small as sleeping in rather than making that 10 a.m. section to options as large as going to Wall Street rather than taking a lower-paying, but more fulfilling...
...congregations didn't applaud after his readings at others' memorial services. It was what Read, quoting John le Carré, calls Guinness's propensity to "back into the limelight." Far from the pottering, benevolent figure Guinness presents in his own books, Read reveals a frequently cruel, ambitious and selfish man striving to be better than his nature allowed. The book's very first line, which has Guinness admitting that "my mother was a whore ? when she gave birth she called the bastard Guinness but my father was probably the bloody cook," is a jolt. It is also the first flash...
...have earned driving his cab. Two cops who set him up have been sentenced to four and five years in jail, but Jing remains in debt and is still waiting for his car, seized during the arrest, to be returned. "The cops ruined me only because of their own selfish goals," he says...