Normal polite, generous people seem to turn into very selfish, self-centred individuals once they light up a cigarette. |
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Sometimes I think it truly self-centred and self-indulgent to believe that you hold an opinion that so many people could be interested in. |
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If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity. |
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These are obviously self-centred and cold-hearted individuals who care only for their well-being and betterment. |
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Above all, they are apt to be self-centred and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbours and communities. |
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Above all, they're apt to be self-centred and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbours or communities. |
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It's basically a self-centred group, whose members always thought and talked about themselves. |
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Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe. |
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Sikhs try to avoid the five vices that make people self-centred, and build barriers against God in their lives. |
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At the centre of it all is a shallow self-centred consumerism, coupled with a debilitating absence of fear and reverence for God. |
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Poets are selfish, self-centred people who regard neighbours as noisy interruptions rather than deserving objects in need of a helping hand. |
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Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred. |
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On the contrary, they are all self-centred, money-grubbing social climbers. |
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And it is the self-centred ones who tend to get left on the shelf and so are the main frequenters of singles venues. |
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The powers remain, but they now follow the inclinations of man's perverted and self-centred heart. |
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The other characters are, without exception, vapid, obnoxious and self-centred. |
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More often than not, the partner committing the adultery is less mature and more self-centred, putting selfish desires before concern for others. |
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Yet the rationality of a self-centred use of technology proves to be irrational because it implies a decisive rejection of meaning and value. |
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With the focus on self-centred fulfillment, there is less attention to the enduring fulfillment that comes from children and family. |
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What, however, is, in the end, required to get the Committee on Agriculture to act in a less self-centred way? |
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Any decision promoted through self-centred initiatives, artificial deadlines and pre-emptive vetoes will be divisive and likely to be stillborn. |
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Many groups gave examples of how the literate are self-centred and exploitative in their relationship with the others. |
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The European Union must therefore act more as an entity and less in a self-centred, uncoordinated way. |
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She is such a virago, so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career. |
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Otherwise you become inward looking and self-centred and, in the end, irrelevant. |
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In the first phase of his public career before 1914 he was widely regarded as a young man in a hurry who was self-centred and excitable. |
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But love comes only when the mind is very quiet, disinterested, not self-centred. |
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The sessions help parents move from a self-centred to a child-centred framework, helping them improve parenting skills. |
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But the mind is still self-centred, the contact feeble and the alignment uncertain. |
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You have spoken of the terrible challenge of poverty afflicting so much of the world's population and of how we cannot afford indifference and self-centred isolation. |
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According to the typescript, finished in 1947, he was cruel, negligent, greedy, self-centred and wasteful. |
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Well, it all began in a very self-centred way really. I started out writing the way you would if you were jotting down your thoughts in a diary. |
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By her account, he is a ruthless, self-centred hypochondriac who cannot even take a shower if the drain is in the wrong place. |
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The self-centred person is an unpleasant personality, quite unfitted for public relations. |
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We assume that our existence is nothing but our personality and we become self-centred and full of self-importance. |
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For calm and helpful, the opposite characteristics may be uptight and self-centred. |
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The biggest personality is Little My, utterly self-centred, mischievous, and rancidly funny. |
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This particular image consultant appears to have neglected his own image, or maybe he is just happy with being cynical, self-centred, irascible and insufferable. |
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Though a man were so self-centred as to seek only his own good, he must admit nevertheless that the interests of the community are his own interests. |
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This implies that public agencies evolve from a closed, self-centred service provider to an open networking organisation which the public can trust. |
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There we have a motive which is not self-centred but which ranges each individual worker and humanitarian on the side of the spiritual Hierarchy, putting him in touch with all men of goodwill. |
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But the angry reaction to her comments rose to a new level today with blogs on the left and right accusing her of being self-centred and narcissistic. |
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In the meantime, the need for large homesites spread over vast tracts of land prevails, because people are too self-centred to think of protecting the environment. |
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This unilateral and self-centred approach is reflected today in the arguments put forward and in the policies of selective immigration' which are all the rage in Europe. |
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The older baby-boomers often envisage their future proactively, which translates into social engagement, in contrast to the widely represented image of this generation as self-centred and self-involved. |
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No one can keep a friendship alive without practising consideration, which is the reason exceedingly self-centred persons are almost invariably friendless. |
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He's immature and self-centred and will move on shiftlessly to any woman who'll have him. |
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His father spirals into self-centred grief, and Nikolaj is left to deal with his sorrow over the loss of his mother and the disintegration of his family. |
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The yolk was on the self-centred air steward when bedsit residents Emma and Michelle decided to take a messy revenge onhim for insulting them. |
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A self-centred person is conscious only of his own unsatisfied needs, whereas the unselfish member of the family expands through all other members to touch life at a multitude of points. |
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