What makes them so awful isn't their self-interest; it's what their self-interest undermines.
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Corporate understands that we're all motivated by self-interest and that when capitalism convinces people that their personal self-interest is the same as its own self-interest, disastrous things can happen.
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Each recognizes that self-interest — genuine, rational self-interest — requires interacting with others by offering value for value.
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This distinction is important because racism is a taboo, whereas ethnic self-interest, like individual self-interest, is viewed as normal.
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Countries follow their enlightened self-interest when they protect elephants, just as McDonald's pursues its self-interest when it shifts toward cage-free eggs.
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Each seems temperamentally incapable of absorbing the charge of self-interest, having woven self-interest together so tightly with an interest in the public good.
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This isn't just a question of this or that policy, or people not knowing what their self-interest is — of course they know what their self-interest is, and they're highly informed.
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It is easy to conceive the Black Lives Matter movement as merely advancing the self-interest of African-Americans in surviving and flourishing within a society whose self-interest is systemically opposed to this.
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Conveniently, self-interest may force politicians to do the right thing.
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It is not only about solidarity; it is about self-interest.
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The Trump motivating principle is self-interest rather than party loyalty.
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These countries have a clear self-interest in preserving fossil fuels.
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Expressing opinions that clash with self-interest is a bipartisan activity.
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Cook's speech had an important, and unstated, element of self-interest.
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The West's strongest argument is an appeal to enlightened self-interest.
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They are created by citizens banding together in enlightened self-interest.
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We know Trump acts only out of self-interest and impulse.
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If saving lives is not motivation enough, how about self-interest?
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Problems cannot be resolved through calculations of land or self-interest.
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In these conditions, the concept of self-interest starts to splinter.
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Comey made mistakes, but they weren't made out of self-interest.
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When will they understand that it is in their self-interest?
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Donald Trump and Theresa May stand only for national self interest.
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Of course, in all countries, politicians act out of self-interest.
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Yet, ambition and raw self-interest took them only so far.
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There are several reasons people may look beyond narrow self-interest.
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It's clearly in America's own self-interest to rethink this project.
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That's not all politics is; self-interest is always a factor.
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And that self-interest was — and is — the enemy of caution.
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Or, are they entitled to act in their own self-interest?
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Google is a company, with the self-interest of a company.
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Self-interest and politics haven't been enough to make me care.
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Political self-interest will not be confused with the national interest.
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Opinion Columnist Men and women are primarily motivated by self-interest.
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Maybe her perspective has changed; or maybe her self-interest has.
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It suggests that naked self-interest is more beneficial than collaboration.
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They'll only get bigger and won't be solved by self-interest.
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Business folk are motivated by idealism, vanity and calculated self-interest.
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A nation's self-interest consists of the interests of its citizens.
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It's in their greedy monetary self-interest not to block anyone.
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Sovereign nations remain in incessant pursuit of power and self-interest.
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Economists typically treat rational self-interest as the lodestar of human behaviour.
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And all along, none of them can escape their own self-interest.
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Recently, we have seen self-interest at work in Japan as well.
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Its greatest characteristic is a relentless focus on its own self-interest.
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Out of self-interest, if nothing else, they should treat them decently.
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It's in voters' self-interest to try to make kids better off.
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Compare this to our current state of multiple competing parties' self-interest.
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But not just for its own corporate self interest, the company insists.
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It&aposs in their self-interest to stop playing this totalitarian card.
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"Iran has its own self-interest in the region," he told me.
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In the first place it's not about self-interest as normally understood.
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Consumers, via the liberty of enlightened self-interest, will drive that innovation.
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Properly directed, self-interest and incentives are a powerful force for good.
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Tech can be forgiven its self-interest, though the hypocrisy is palpable.
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This muddled notion of self-interest infected other areas of the speech.
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That doesn't mean that these companies aren't also driven by self-interest.
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Cutting greenhouse gases makes sense simply for our own economic self-interest.
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Denunciations of his campaign were beside the point of their self-interest.
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His opponents called it evidence of self-interest during Britain's political crisis.
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It's all about self-interest and a war of all against all.
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If Manafort pursues his self-interest, my bet is that he'll sing.
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" He added, "They're calling something 'liberating' that's obviously in their self-interest.
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Ah, never underestimate the power of self-interest to shape people's views.
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The collective psychology of neoliberalism encourages self-interest and short-term thinking.
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But most Republicans I know don't vote in their economic self-interest.
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The flesh-eating dead, at least, come together in mindless self-interest.
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And there is a collective self-interest to try to resolve this.
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When it comes to their rational self-interest, the Chinese are unapologetic.
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What elevates a person's fight against gender oppression above rudimentary self-interest?
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He was appealing to people's self-interest and I don't do that.
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But it is a self-interest that rests on a moral principle.
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It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest.
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Fighters work in their own self-interest, not for high-minded ideals.
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Nobody should begrudge Republicans the right to act out of partisan self-interest, but the way the system is supposed to work is that the other party then needs to act out of its own partisan self-interest.
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Often, commercial self-interest gives an incentive for the technology companies to act.
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We are social creatures, not the calculating self-interest maximizers of economic lore.
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In 2016, the year of self-interest, such one-eyed wonderings are permitted.
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Regime continuity and personal survival motivate Assad, while strategic self-interest motivates Putin.
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For different reasons, both men had keen self-interest in moving toward unity.
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The support it does receive is fickle and based mainly on self-interest.
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Commercial self-interest will also keep other countries on the path towards decarbonisation.
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Respect and love are always granted without self-interest, or not at all.
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This contest is less the product of ideological conviction than of self-interest.
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You say the West often supports dictatorships to further its own self-interest.
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This isn't just the right thing to do; it's in our self-interest.
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"There is a collective self-interest to try and resolve this," he said.
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Those actions, driven by self-interest, are not unexpected nor to be criticized.
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The bottom line — these two countries are acting in their own self-interest.
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PACE thinks it can get corporations to act out of their self interest.
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Peel notes that each party's inherent self-interest may prevent this from happening.
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Collective self-defense is subject to pragmatic considerations of expediency and self-interest.
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There is no sense of civic duty in this man, only self-interest.
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That is precisely where the geopolitical considerations collide with a narrower self-interest.
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The self-interest in this case is holding the Senate and the House.
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In short, the United States has reciprocal self-interest in upholding international immunity.
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But they don't hit most people in the solar plexus of self-interest.
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The New York Times' Mark Leibovich hinted that it was pure self-interest.
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Self-interest has always been part of what makes immigration in America work.
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But the reaction at the plant is based on more than self-interest.
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If it's self-interest powering the wave, such is the nature of politics.
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And purely from the viewpoint of political self-interest, Connor kinda nails it.
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In corporate philanthropy, self-interest is nearly always clasping the hand of largess.
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Maintaining social distance and voluntarily quarantining yourself is part self-interest, part altruism.
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Politicians driven by self-interest turned tribes against one another — neighbor against neighbor.
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In Washington, the first rule is that the first interest is self-interest.
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"What the president does is motivated in his self-interest," Ms. Khera said.
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Making congressional service a career inevitably fosters self-interest over the people's interest.
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The essential logic of society is not actually individuals seeking their self-interest.
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They hope his self-interest will win out and he'll spill it all.
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So there's a lot of self interest in pushing back on this narrative.
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"The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest."
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Was Solemani's killing done in the national interest or in Trump's self-interest?
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The researchers offer a broader definition of self-interest to explain their findings.
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It calls for making U.S. self-interest the basis of our foreign policy.
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I don't want to say that Hillary Clinton is devoid of self-interest.
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And Salzberg doesn't hide the goal: "There's some self interest there," he said.
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It's also in part due to their own bureaucratic incentives and self-interest.
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I was uncomfortable with the phrase "altruistic donor," which implied a lack of self-interest, when it was perfectly clear to me that I had great self-interest: It would make me feel good to be of use in this way.
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There's certainly some self-interest in this prediction — New Fox doesn't compete with Netflix.
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Trump has never worried about pushing the envelope when his self-interest is involved.
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Contrary to what is often assumed, the Scot did not advocate ruthless self-interest.
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There is no intellectual or philosophical consistency at work here, only pure self-interest.
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If nothing else, it may come back to Mr. Williams's term, enlightened self-interest.
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I suppose I do worry but ultimately we're appealing to people's rational self-interest.
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It's a good investment for them, because nobody takes their naked self-interest seriously.
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Electoral self-interest could be incentive enough for MORENA to patch up its differences.
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The United States acted partly out of charity, but chiefly out of self-interest.
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"The rules-based international order is powerfully in our national self-interest," she says.
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The best bet may be to rekindle a spirit of self-interest among businessmen.
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He's a proponent of enlightened self-interest and considers himself a gifted motivational speaker.
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Any unilateral action based on one's self-interest will lead to a dead end.
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Additionally, hustlers will say anything you want to hear to serve their self-interest.
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They have a quieting of self-interest and a turning to people around them.
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That would include just one's own self-interest in seeking to impede an investigation.
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Democrats are putting their self-interest above the country's interest, which is a shame.
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This smacks to some of calculated corporate self-interest dressed up as humanitarian rhetoric.
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It paints Cohen as a liar driven by self-interest and an unreliable witness.
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First, the data would strongly indicate it is counterproductive to their political self-interest.
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He in effect made Jewish self-interest a wedge to promote anti-black politics.
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Perhaps the key is the GOP's electoral self-interest in this fall's midterm elections.
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German foreign policy also is notable for its singular emphasis on economic self-interest.
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" The aide maintained that "neither move is in the self-interest of Saudi Arabia.
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Yet the rise of national self-interest and populism has introduced risk and uncertainty.
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The pursuit of narrow self-interest is held to lead to the greatest good.
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She also rejected assertions that she acted out of self-interest during Clinton's presidency.
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This sort of enlightened self-interest sounds simple, but its impact has been dramatic.
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In their own self-interest, they want you to see all of their posts.
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The distance between the left and right is represented by ideology and self-interest.
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Mr. Johnson's political opponents quickly seized on the pictures as evidence of self-interest.
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But that was the old world of ruthless self-interest and zero-sum competition.
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Economic self-interest and the pursuit of profits tilts decidedly toward an open internet.
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How do you reach people who make dangerous political choices grounded in self-interest?
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More likely, she's motivated by the same thing as her boss: unadulterated self-interest.
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One of the advantages is we both have the same self-interest in this.
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The F.C.C.'s new rules represent a triumph of corporate self-interest over principle.
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In capitalist theory, it is assumed that man is entirely driven by self-interest.
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This was partly out of self-interest: property rights suited the cattle-owning nobility.
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Amassing professional power at the expense of other women isn't feminism — it's self-interest.
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Nor should one underestimate the role self-interest plays in the Trump-Republican relationship.
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Republicans focused on self-interest — or self-preservation — are under pressure from all directions.
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White working-class voters drifted to the Republican Party against their economic self-interest.
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If 2016 was an election of self-interest, what we need now is empathy.
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With this argument, Dershowitz completely conflates a president's self-interest with the national interest.
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People from poor areas who supported the government were going against their self-interest.
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It leads to empathy and a larger sense of responsibility beyond simple self-interest.
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Partisan rancour and short-term self-interest, particularly in America, may make that difficult.
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"Mars is controlling the research agenda in its corporate self-interest," said NYU's Nestle.
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The better way of putting that is to appeal to people's enlightened self-interest.
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Voting for whoever was promising to stop that makes sense as rational economic self-interest.
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In foreign policy, as in all things, China is the distilled essence of self-interest.
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When people identify as groups, they look after their own self-interest as a group.
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As always, it's not enlightened ideals that define political opinions, it's power and self-interest.
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AND AT SOME POINT, THEY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IN THEIR ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST.
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And in those cases, they did so with plenty of selfish self-interest in mind.
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But the country's controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orban is acting out of blinkered self-interest.
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Perhaps our European allies will act, not out of self-interest, but out of spite.
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Very few, however, seem willing to stand up for any principle beyond partisan self-interest.
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"Most countries see it in their self-interest to pursue progressive climate action," Hoffmann said.
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It suggests that, left unchecked, self-interest can deplete resources that support the common good.
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Donald Trump and Paul Ryan have put their self-interest above the country's best interest.
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These factors bring out normal human traits of self-interest and the desire for prestige.
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Simple self-interest explains that a union wishes to avoid competition from other service providers.
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"I was voting against my self interest," quipped Thune, who is over 6 feet tall.
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In the name of decency, and in our own self-interest, we should do them.
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Here's Lizza: "It's true that the notion of self-interest was critical," Obama told me.
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James Mattis, could persuade him that it's in America's self-interest to preserve the alliance.
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The wealthy define "deserve" to ensure their self-interest is disguised as the greater good.
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Every age has its blinders, constructed, usually, through a combination of ignorance and self-interest.
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These forces are motivated by self-interest, but their common feature is an operational nihilism.
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Steve is moving toward some sort of enlightened self-interest, and Tony's moving to selflessness.
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Millionaires move money mainly out of self-interest, to find more rewarding or safer havens.
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"America was always strong on self-interest but it has been very generous," he said.
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Now those ecological concepts are rendered synonymous with the self-interest of the invading settlers.
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Conventional wisdom holds that this is because of mismanagement or the self-interest of leaders.
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They vote in terms of what they perceive to be in their spiritual self-interest.
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"When it's time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest," Williams said.
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The intersection of these two axes of authoritarianism — ideology and self-interest — is quite dangerous.
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"It's not about a handout for foreign friends; it's about enlightened self-interest," she said.
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Americans can take solace, knowing partisanship and political self-interest have not completely destroyed patriotism.
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Try to appeal to the owners' sense of compassion, but also to their self-interest.
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"His self-interest has always come before the interests of the A.N.C. and the country."
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Trump's own supporters therefore put their economic self-interest over their allegiance to party politics.
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Wouldn't the intermediate manager's answer reflect her own self-interest as much as anything else?
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Instead, we have a man who will put his self-interest first, every single time.
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The crass self-interest at so many turns now poses a danger to our democracy.
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But faculties basically control the place and they have their own self-interest at heart.
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Human behavior is guided and constrained by values — self-interest, compassion, greed, love, fear, etc.
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Liberals also need to look at the degree to which self-interest blunts their reforming zeal.
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But these are people who felt moved by Trump's message and voted out of self-interest.
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It shows the corruption and self-interest eating away at the United State's most hallowed institutions.
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Unrestrained, short-sighted self-interest has also unleashed the rather dystopian spectre of catastrophic climate change.
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While many factors were at play, Germany's path was, at its core, one of self-interest.
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Are you working against your own self interest economically to not sell some of this stuff?
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That's not a surprise, as any company is going to act out of economic self-interest.
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But it's definitely not too late to change their behavior, if only out of self-interest.
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I always use this phrase "enlightened self-interest" in ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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"I think we can get more men behind these issues because of self-interest," he said.
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We saw the old media protect the old guard of Washington for its own self-interest.
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Amid the triumph of self-interest over the greater good, there were some grounds for cheer.
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The passion of the many is needed to conquer the self-interest of the few—J.
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I don't know if he can get them to act against their own economic self-interest.
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Or that a desire to preserve a lost racial hierarchy would overwhelm simple economic self-interest.
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In the post-war years, American business leaders seized on an ideology of divine self-interest.
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They resent and they hate, and given a fig-leaf of rational self-interest, they act.
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Yesterday, Thomas put his deeply rooted beliefs about race and the Constitution above partisan self-interest.
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Few outside observers think that quitting would be in Britain's self-interest and for good reason.
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For investors, it's a two-fer of enlightened self-interest — both as investors and as citizens.
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In a world in which everything is justified by self interest, nothing can be off limits.
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The very notion of a relationship that transcends mercenary self-interest may be alien to Icahn.
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It is not a good look, to repeatedly and self-righteously defend your own self-interest.
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And there is a degree of national self-interest, I make no apologies in saying that.
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"[Israeli intel acts] purely act out of self interest as you would expect," said the consultant.
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Yes. His testimony, albeit mired by his self-interest and criminality, is not mired in contradiction.
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Trump's words to the Times indicate that the press will abet him out of self-interest.
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In my experience, politicians score the most points for promising to govern against their self interest.
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As Mr Milanovic points out, people all over the world understand the pursuit of self-interest.
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The self-interest of the gallery can compromise the independence and integrity of the curatorial voice.
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Does one advocate for one's self-interest, or for the interests of society as a whole?
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The corporation, of course, is controlling costs and offering these unusual benefits out of self-interest.
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Out of fear or self-interest, corporate America appears to be playing along with the charade.
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In addition to concern for the average Roman, self-interest drove the conspirators to kill Caesar.
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In some cases, however, presidents appeared to act against their own self-interest in economic matters.
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Mr. Trump can be a quick study, at least on matters involving his own self-interest.
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And the bizarre thing is that it was always in Trump's self-interest to be candid.
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They deserve a president who will put the country's interest first – not his own self-interest.
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Love, not self-interest (enlightened or otherwise), was the foundation for flourishing community and civic life.
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During times of national crisis, each individual is called upon to put country above self-interest.
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But this was a small concession for China, and in its own self-interest, Webster said.
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But as I said, regulation rage seems to be more about psychology than about self-interest.
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Traditionally, those urging China to reckon honestly with the past have appealed to rational self-interest.
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Standing with Israel is both the right thing to do and in our own self-interest.
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This brings us to Economic Man, the guy who always maximizes his own rational self-interest.
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No ordinary politician would ever conceive of suggesting that self-interest could possibly motivate politicians' behavior.
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It would be in the West's collective self-interest to limit the spread of such technology.
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The fact is, it is in their self-interest to build top-performing, equitable, diverse companies.
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The book explores the relationship between acting in your own self interest and finding economic prosperity.
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This emphasis on sovereignty has, of course, often been motivated by power politics and self-interest.
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Like any exporter, Mr. Ma's public championing of free trade blends enlightenment with self-interest. Alibaba.
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Society came to be seen as an atomized collection of individual economic units pursuing self-interest.
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There's plenty of self-interest in climate mitigation, but there's also an ineradicable element of altruism.
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And my hope is that you will prod them to actually see their enlightened self-interest.
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One reason undoubtedly reflects our professional self-interest: The last thing doctors need is another performance measure.
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They have understood that it is in their enlightened self-interest for there to be shared prosperity.
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He had assumed that bankers, acting in their self-interest, could not blow up their own banks.
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Their engagement in the war against terrorism and our mutual relationship is inherently in America's self-interest.
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"A 'bang-bang logic' will dominate — everyone defends their own self-interest whatever it takes," Nascimento said.
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Those insisting on maintenance of the failed V.A. health system do so only out of self-interest.
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If conservationists want to make better progress, they need to appeal more forcefully to humanity's self-interest.
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But ordinary people often saw wealth as a cover for privilege and expertise as disguised self-interest.
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That was the whole thing of how we need to work together for our own self-interest.
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Every decision has to be unanimous, which leads to characters reluctantly voting against their own self-interest.
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According to him, they believe that market exchange and self-interest are how societies naturally organise themselves.
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Maybe Trump's relentless self-interest will finally result in something good being done about this egregious overreach.
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Even if a boycott isn't in your own immediate self-interest, it's worth doing to help them.
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It's also essential that public debate about digital ethics does not get hijacked by corporate self interest.
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" And then Axe says, "What is the more powerful driver: boning me or your own self interest?
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Even if he does help others, Alig's biggest drive always seems to be his own self interest.
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"Part of the idea of mercy is showing regard for others rather than self-interest," he said.
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There's self-interest in the Republican tax bill because in Washington, there are few other interests left.
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However, it is also the in self-interest of the Taliban leadership to deny terrorists safe haven.
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Opposition to BRAC reflects Congress at its worst, protecting unneeded bases out of pure parochial self-interest.
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This explains the overuse of natural resources, opportunism, and any acts of self-interest over collective interest.
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In her announcement speech, the senator pledged to fight for average Americans against "self-interest" in government.
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Trump has already shown a willingness to take extraordinary steps as president in his own self-interest.
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When it forgot that although greed and ruthlessness and self-interest might be sublimated, they never disappear.
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Up until now, Republicans haven't seen much tension between their own self-interest and supporting the President.
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Their unspoken primary objective is to look out for their own self-interest and protect their returns.
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You're perfectly within your rights to do everything you legally can to look after your self-interest.
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"That's in my self-interest, that does good for my industry and my career prospects," he says.
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Republican leaders have proved they can't be trusted to take anything other than narrow self-interest seriously.
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The problem for Trump is that he couldn't hold a consistent line on self-interest and sovereignty.
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You might consider them romantics, fighting in a doomed cause for something greater than their self-interest.
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It's intended to appeal to the audience's fear and self-interest—and it can be very effective.
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If empathy for others or future generations can't inspire concern, then let pure self-interest dictate action.
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We have become accustomed to pursuing our individual self-interest at the expense of the common good.
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Self-interest and patient diplomacy: a combination that could work to the benefit of the entire world.
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Diversity is a matter of social justice, but it is also a matter of industry self-interest.
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There was a sincere patriotism woven in to this model, but also a lot of self-interest.
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Wall Street's self-interest should not be allowed to stand in the way of finally fixing it.
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Isn't family the kernel of self-interest that expands outward into the corrupt institutions of the state?
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"My husband's greatest legacy was placing service to AZ & USA ahead of his own self-interest," Mrs.
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Is she a reformer, a revolutionary or just a desperate character fighting in her own self-interest?
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Another is that we have a self-interest in preventing the next Ebola outbreak or other epidemic.
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It should be compared to a highly defective, existing system full of lobbying, full of self-interest.
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"I believe that in the Cooper race, they voted for their economic self-interest," Mr. Rosin said.
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But that wasn't in Megyn and Gretchen's self-interest, a truism that the movie can't fully face.
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For her, morality begins with the attempt to remove the taint of self-interest from her judgments.
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She is a vortex of ambiguity, pragmatism, and self-interest—the true literary protagonist of Atwood's Gilead.
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Adaptation, by contrast, can pay off even when a person acts alone, out of pure self-interest.
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Here, she applies to her marital — and extramarital — business the self-interest she extolled in her writings.
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So I think self-interest will drive that, as well as it being good for the country.
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For the president and the administration this is a matter of both self-interest and national interest.
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November's elections made clear that voters were fed up with politicians putting self-interest before public interest.
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Members of Congress also possess a sense of self-interest that exceeds their allegiance to the president.
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He makes and will continue to make decisions based on his instinct for his own self-interest.
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I continue to believe America is a country that can lead the world in enlightened self-interest.
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Even if these platforms are making these statements out of blind self-interest, it doesn't mean they're wrong.
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In it, he painted a chilling vision of an "unstoppable" America, driven solely and expressly by self-interest.
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Drivers are classified as independent contractors, and as such, tend to act in their own best self interest.
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It's not really 'doing the right thing' when you only act when it is in your self-interest.
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He frequently pitches a similar theme of solidarity and voting beyond one's self-interest on the campaign trail.
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Some are even accusing Kwan of abusing his power and "bribing" his students for his own self-interest.
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Zellner's theory is that Bobby lied in self-interest, concerned that he himself would look like the killer.
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Such is the career of Kobe Bryant, where self-interest and the greater good have so often overlapped.
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I think that she is someone who understands her momentary self-interest and pursues it very, very aggressively.
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It's not hard to read between the lines of what can happen when self-interest and politics collide.
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The house is her asset and as a matter of self-interest, she should not want it trashed.
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In other words, getting elected does not make an individual omniscient nor does human self-interest just disappear.
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There's almost a worthwhile one about a professional and political awakening that isn't entirely driven by self-interest.
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The political background was popular disgust at his endless pursuit of self-interest with no fear of consequences.
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There are two arguments for the claim that Europeans have more in common than base economic self-interest.
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They don't think of colleges as being like carmakers or banks — as an industry with financial self-interest.
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So if you are a Wall Street billionaire, rational self-interest might well induce you to oppose Warren.
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Hence, it is in the self-interest of most jurisdictions to free-ride on the actions of others.
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Or, as some psychologists have argued, does faith include a healthy dose of self-interest masquerading as morality?
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To be fair, the self-interest of South Carolina politicians is not the only thing keeping MOX alive.
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If you orient everything around individual self-interest, you end up ripping the web of giving and receiving.
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He said that self-interest was also encouraging other international actors, include Turkey and Europe, to step up.
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The only thing that works is positive incentives to do the right thing in your enlightened self-interest.
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Trump's solution—more sovereignty, more countries acting in their narrow self-interest—would only create more bloody gridlock.
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Additionally, presidents, like all elected officials, are not virtuous angels who disregard their self-interest upon entering office.
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The whole point of an independent monitor is to counteract the self-interest of the agency it monitors.
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He is obsessed with winning, with being right -- even when it works directly against his political self-interest.
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On the one hand, that's refreshing because they're not pretending to be motivated by anything beyond self-interest.
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Trump and Murdoch also share a transactional approach to politics, devoid of almost any ideology besides self-interest.
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His opponents seized on the pictures as evidence of self-interest during a deepening political crisis in Britain.
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Ramaphosa implored South Africans to act in the interest of the nation and not out of self-interest.
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And even if the idea of shared humanity doesn't make you think this is urgent, self-interest must.
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"There wasn't as much acute self-interest in immigration as you might get in, say, Nevada," Schale said.
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By emphasizing Mary's light complexion, Mr. Sumner similarly appealed to the empathy and self-interest of white Americans.
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Their self-interest triggered a second stage of the antiwar movement, with much bigger and more numerous protests.
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What makes us act against our own self-interest, even when we are acutely aware we're doing so?
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How many times in the American theater have we watched men characters act in their own self-interest?
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The president himself cannot be held accountable if facts are sacrificed to a partisan agenda or self-interest.
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They are vigilant, they are tireless and they are, in many cases, squarely opposed to my self-interest.
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AF We have to be very careful about saying that people are not voting in their self-interest.
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But these corrections barely matter (and it's worth keeping in mind the self-interest of an industry publication).
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So, women 18 to 118, when it is time to vote please do so in your self-interest.
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Even when intentions are admirable, the mind is effective at warping perspectives to line up with self-interest.
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" He continued, "People are basically dishonest and unclean; they cheat and lie and are motivated by self-interest.
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Doing so would require acting against their own self-interest, as well as the interest of their families.
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Above all, the bloc's founding idea of making war between nations with mutual self-interest unthinkable has held.
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The surprise is not primarily that it is against their self-interest as established members of the club.
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It is too facile to regard the man as a Machiavellian monster of self-interest, she has argued.
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It also may be the case that they will soon have a political self-interest in abandoning him.
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However warily American and Chinese leaders eye each other, economic self-interest keeps their most hawkish impulses in check.
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Just vote for Democrats, which is in his self-interest because he doesn&apost want a probe of himself.
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In fact, it seems that the President-elect is only able to view the issue through his self-interest.
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Even if American startups are overvalued, few individual investors — acting in their own self-interest — are willing to retrench.
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Taylor's statement is stunning in its allegations of self-interest guiding foreign policy toward a country fighting Russian aggression.
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If we talk about ourselves in the language of self-interest, then self-interested people is what we get.
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Alban Bonnet, their sustainability manager, explains that these efforts are part charity, part capacity-building and part self-interest.
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" I think that there's – to over-demonize any human being is not in our best self interest," he said.
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While deploring America's individualism and self-interest, Mr Wang fails to see the reach of philanthropy and voluntary organisations.
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"Japan is getting ready to see more young leaders in politics," he says, with a dash of self-interest.
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Externalities, where "self-interest will not…tend to make the national dividend a maximum", were central to his theme.
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With his help, they could keep their jobs; self-interest compelled them to treat the red-nosed reindeer well.
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At some juncture in its winding arc, Instagram became an ecosystem built less on exploration than on self-interest.
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"I think she's out for her own self-interest," Murkowski said of Palin on the evening of the election.
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"It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender," she says to the pappardelle.
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No doubt, the modern foreign policy establishment can be criticized for stale or lazy thinking, or parochial self-interest.
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What happens, however, when leaders are unable or unwilling to turn the tide of nationalism, xenophobia and self-interest?
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Since the U.S. triumphed in World War II, its leaders have embraced a broad conception of national self-interest.
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But their self-interest drives them to find our greatest weaknesses and contradictions, and devise ways to exploit them.
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Its members are supporting Donald Trump much as they have persuaded their base to do so: against self-interest.
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AND MY EXPECTATION IS THAT OVERTIME PEOPLE DO THINGS IN THEIROWN LONG TERM SELF INTEREST ANDTHINGS WILL SETTLE DOWN.
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Like the assessment of the founders, zero tolerance quickly gives way to nuance when self-interest is at play.
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However, these scientists just wanted to understand how the brain weighs the value of honesty against personal self-interest.
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Maybe experts can sacrifice their own self-interest to serve the greater good regardless of our expertise or none.
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It is a staple of American politics to criticize those who vote simply out of their own self-interest.
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"Rules must be respected in the self-interest of all parties, especially the weaker ones," Draghi told the leaders.
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It's a matter of self-interest: Newcomers mainly bring energy and drive and imagination and ambition to this country.
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Everything that extolled competition, self-interest and independence was celebrated, and everything that celebrated relation and intimacy was diminished.
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But others chose to identify with something larger than their own community and pursue more than material self-interest.
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It operates on inherited loyalties, antipathy against scandal-plagued opponents, time-for-a-change sentiments and basic self-interest.
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This might sound like a call for magnanimity, but it is just as much an appeal to self-interest.
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It is not in their self-interest to do so and it would take a considerable amount of time.
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Luckily, there is at least one Republican willing to sacrifice self-interest in the name of integrity: Michael Cohen.
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Mr. Netanyahu and his allies sought to impeach Mr. Lapid's testimony as nothing more than crass political self-interest.
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There's also a word for people who, out of cowardice or self-interest, go along with such abuses: collaborators.
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Live coverage: Senators query impeachment managers, Trump defense MORE (D-Calif.), dismissed Dershowitz's expansive interpretation of presidential self-interest.
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So, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest.
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If any one quality could be ascribed to A.I. neural networks, it would be relentless "single-minded" self-interest.
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Beyond legal and constitutional considerations, it's in the political self-interest of Republicans to protect the special counsel's investigation.
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A good bilateral trade agreement shouldn't involve pity or charity, but rather the economic self-interest of both countries.
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But our struggles for power were not only conflicts of self-interest but also of rival understandings of freedom.
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So women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest.
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But if it would be beyond and against our own self-interest, I would believe -- to have them leave.
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The United States must act in its own self-interest, not wait around hoping Iran does us a favor.
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Price has gleefully advanced his own political ideology and self-interest at the expense of sound health-care policy.
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They do so by limiting the ability of professionals to act in their pure self-interest at all times.
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As the leader of a company, you have to put the organization's mission and welfare above your self-interest.
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They're mostly "coastal elites," I imagine, who have already decided that my neighbors vote against their own self-interest.
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A belief in nation states and in nations working together in the global self-interest is not mutually exclusive.
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"The results of this paper show that even just focusing on self-interest alone should be enough," Pearce said.
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But a key part of the story is self-interest: Loud provocations with the West help Putin at home.
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Or is it acting solely in its own self-interest, taking only the steps necessary to reduce its own liability?
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As Tim correctly noted, even if it were in Apple's self interest to say so, Facebook's users were its products.
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This is Trump at his Trumpiest — completely unable to see outside the four corners of his own narrow self-interest.
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So I am not the only sportsman following Brexit negotiations with keen self-interest and a considerable degree of fear.
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All this portends a system in which big business sets and pursues broad social goals, not its narrow self-interest.
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" He told Reuters: "It's absurd to assert there are no issues of bias related to self-interest, reputation or careerism.
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Maintaining that blithe posture now will imply—or confirm—that they have entirely ditched principle for short-term self-interest.
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Indeed, even from the standpoint of the president's own self-interest, it's probably counterproductive to be isolated from accurate information.
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America under Donald Trump is retreating from its role as underwriter, in favour of a doctrine of national self-interest.
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Fear of annoying such investors may have played a part in the government's decision, but self-interest may have, too.
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They have focused on the invisible hand — self interest — and neglected their need to belong to a job or community.
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They're a leading indicator, accessible in nearly real time, with a clear connection to the president's own material self-interest.
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These actions are not driven by self-interest but by our mission to ensure that justice is available for all.
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Indeed, that the American right has transformed climate change into a partisan issue defies all reason and rational self-interest.
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Gates said richer countries must help developing nations tackle disease, both for humanitarian reasons and for their own self-interest.
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"Everywhere, we are told that we will prosper through competitive self-interest and extreme individualism," George Monbiot argued last year.
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Rightly or wrongly, the women who voted for Trump decided that it was in their self-interest to do so.
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That will go a long way to curbing the flow of leaks, most of which are motivated by self interest.
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Lawyers for Shari Redstone oppose that motion, arguing in court filings that Dauman and Abrams were motivated by self interest.
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Although he does well for himself, he doesn't see any self-interest in what he's doing — only an improving instinct.
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For an economist, one natural hypothesis to entertain is that people's attitudes toward globalization are based on their self-interest.
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Ever selfish (even with Pepper), Tony has, for the first time, something he puts far and above his self-interest.
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It has served the self-interest of the United States, creating trade partners and fostering peaceful societies, benefiting our economy.
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Mr. Shechtman said news media reports have wrongly characterized his client as a man driven by greed and self-interest.
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Our goal was to create a scenario that would capture the classic trade-off between self-interest and helping others.
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And in a body devoted, however imperfectly, to the idea of collaboration for the greater good, he championed self-interest.
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While appeals to narrow self-interest can work for a while, they eventually fall short because they ignore human nature.
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Egocentric rationality consists in placing these dispositions in the service of satisfying our personal desires and advancing our self-interest.
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In the long run, though, it isn't ideology that counts most but rabid self-interest — and a hunger for revenge.
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Trump, in contrast, doesn't seem to believe in much of anything beyond his own self-interest and hostility toward foreigners.
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Corporate activism on social issues isn't in tension with corporate self-interest on tax policy and corporate stinginess in paychecks.
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Last week the market could trust that Russia would act in its own self interest to keep oil prices high.
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If Washington cannot convince China and Russia through arguments around economic self-interest, gaining traction with them becomes much harder.
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"They're exploiting a stigma that exists out of a very narrow view of their own economic self-interest," he said.
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Even the best of friends can't always detect their own biases, anxieties, challenges or self-interest when speaking with you.
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This tiny but vocal segment of the public insists on decimating native wildlife for their own profit-driven self-interest.
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Skeptics argue that the decline of American soft power does not matter much because countries cooperate out of self-interest.
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Even people who abhor Trump's crudeness, incompetence, bigotry and anti-democratic leanings may not vote against their own self-interest.
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CEO transactions tainted by self-interest are now permissible, but only if they comply with this type of procedural protection.
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No person nor group can be so absorbed of their own self-interest that they forget the interest of others.
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Otherwise, he will begin to give bad actors around the world more license to act in their own self-interest.
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" According to Merriam Webster it's supposed to mean "marked by impartiality and honesty : free from self-interest, prejudice, or favoritism.
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President Trump and President Buhari have a unique opportunity to push forward a peace agenda in their mutual self-interest.
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He does not understand that it is past time for Congress to put our country above politics and self-interest.
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The self-inflicted chaos, suspicion and inertia—and the brutal self-interest that lurks beneath—acidly capture the national mood.
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It implies renouncing U.S. soft power, notably the nation's reputation for standing for more than its own naked self-interest.
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If pressed for an answer, I suppose they would say Republicans, elected by rubes voting against their own self-interest.
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Sure, Chapman may have been acting, at least in part, out of self-interest, rather than genuine disgust over Weinstein's actions.
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When self-interest is not enough, governments can prod the firms to tighten up—as German lawmakers have, threatening huge fines.
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Ward writes that she is chiefly motivated by self-interest — and has less influence over her father than might be expected.
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The tragedy, then, becomes something he can exploit for his own self-interest, which is to say the company's corporate coffers.
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The backstop of the federal courts imposing sanity with an eye toward something larger than political self-interest has been removed.
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When it comes to charters, the education industry fights efforts at odds with its self-interest just like any other industry.
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But as any student of the Higher School of Economics could tell you, self-interest can be an even stronger motive.
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In fact, the opposite is true: it is a matter of cold self-interest for countries' future economic and security prospects.
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It is a difficult question at the global level, as nations struggle to balance their self-interest with the collective good.
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But while firms benefit from nature's bounty—its water, minerals and energy—preserving it is also an act of self-interest.
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He thought that the popular will had to be filtered through institutions that tamed raw emotions and countered brute self-interest.
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And then there is the self-interest of the elites, usually the only people who can speak the colonial language properly.
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And from the Republicans we have a deceptive, infantile, racist demagogue with no political principles aside from his own self-interest.
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Later, other market theorists would define rationality according to market behavior, allowing them to understand, for example, altruism as self-interest.
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To be sure, there is a fair degree of self-interest in the tech community's call for a universal basic income.
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Hillary Clinton is the preferable manager of the mess that is our national self-interest, as a left of center Democratic.
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So why aren't their podcasts and editorials dedicated to figuring out why someone like me votes against my own self-interest?
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Sometimes business lobbies like the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity borrow populism's language of anti-elitism to camouflage their self-interest.
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"I'm always interested in helping others if I can, and a lot of this is self-interest, as well," Oriez said.
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His unflappable denial and pandering show someone who is committed to no real issue other than the self-interest and power.
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These leaders understand that true leadership is about placing the good of those led over the self-interest of the leader.
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Those who criticized its decision, the group's leaders wrote, failed to understand why maintaining the principle was in their self-interest.
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You know it but your preening self-interest, general incompetence and apparent lack of will to change means that nothing advances.
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So-called liberals who want to help people of color when it's in their own self interest is also spot on.
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Putting the machinery of Viacom into combat mode against the company's majority shareholder appears to be an act of self-interest.
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As France and German have done, he should base his decision on a cold assessment of self-interest, after examining alternatives.
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This episode represents a marked shift in how self-interest plays out in Washington, even compared with a few years ago.
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CynicalSomeone is cynical if they are distrustful of people's motives, or believe that human conduct is motivated primarily by self-interest.
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Chisolm, by contrast, has his sights set on vengeance, which means that his deeds are strictly a matter of self-interest.
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Tragedy of the commons occurs when individuals use public resources in their own self interest rather than for the common good.
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Therefore, it is in the self-interest of countries holding the dollar as a reserve asset that the dollar remains strong.
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I am talking about student agency, where students climb out of their narrow self-interest and take responsibility for their communities.
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The FAA, and its chief regulators, must act in their self interest, and the economy's — Boeing is the biggest US exporter.
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In 1776, Adam Smith defined capitalism as a machine that takes private self-interest and organizes it to produce general prosperity.
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People who believe they have a legal duty to put self-interest before the public interest don't belong in public service.
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Relying entirely on God's grace in the matter of one's salvation means abandoning all thought of merit, all spiritual self-interest.
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Perhaps the clearest example of how these resignations represent self-interest rather than public interest comes from corporate raider Carl Icahn.
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Self-interest is a huge motivator when it comes to how someone acts, especially when the economy is not doing well.
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"If so, the self-interest calculation must go beyond conventional economic measures to include one's physical health and inter-generational concerns."
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This series appears to criticize wealth and acquisition, implying that possessions, and a prominent streak of self-interest, corrode the soul.
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"That's the self interest," explains Don Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Obama administration.
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A winning strategy is to go directly to the self-interest of a majority that is being hurt by Republican policies.
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The code had helped restrain self-interest, support a responsible civic culture and maintain enough civility to enable government to function.
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To keep us this small, we are rewarded for putting others first and punished for acting in our own self-interest.
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Supporting people facing religious persecution overseas is both a moral burden of the United States and an exercise in self-interest.
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We accept the notion that our best selves choose doing the right thing over looking out solely for our self-interest.
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Much like their "Very Bad" counterparts, the women quickly embrace self-interest, which leads to unfunny gags with an inconvenient corpse.
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There is also resentment that, once again, the British have complicated things out of political hubris and partisan self-interest. Mrs.
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But civic duty and self-interest do not capture the ways that middle- and upper-class Americans are engaging in politics.
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But there was a time when America at least viewed the projection of democratic values as being in its self-interest.
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So, I think the Fed has enormous self-interest in playing out this economic strength with rates at historically low levels.
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I'm not saying you must defer to your wife — just that you see your thumb of self-interest on the scale.
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So women from 18 to 118, please, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest.
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America Rising Squared has accused him of self-interest in supporting green energy, as he has substantial investments in solar power.
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"Women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest," she went on.
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The speech was powerful and almost perfect, but fell short in telling women to vote in their own, personal self-interest.
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Unfortunately, none of these solutions can work because the multinational trade agreements are based on individual self-interest and mutual distrust.
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There are a few glimmers of light and public service, and huge dollops of hubris and self-interest followed by disaster.
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He laid out an approach of pursuing narrow self-interest over broader global ones and privileging unilateral action over multilateral cooperation.
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Speaking truth to power now meant taking down all icons, exposing all pretension and looking for self-interest and "spin" everywhere.
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But China's self-interest played a larger role than shared communist ideology in securing assistance for the DPRK's weapons and rocketry.
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Please tell Vadym to let the official USG representatives speak for the U.S. [L]utsenko has his own self-interest here.
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The antithesis of self-interest is not cooperation, but self-sacrifice — the surrender of our interests to the needs of others.
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But to truly combat inequality, we need an even more fundamental change: Americans must vote in their own economic self-interest.
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It fails because in the specific case under scrutiny, Trump was clearly advancing no policy agenda beyond his own self-interest.
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All it would take is a little enlightened self-interest and a real commitment to the continued existence of quality news.
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How difficult might it be to make a legal argument that the president was acting solely in his own "self-interest"?
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If the smug style can be reduced to a single sentence, it's, Why are they voting against their own self-interest?
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They've allowed parents, acting in self-interest, to create school systems that reproduce, or even exacerbate, the structural inequality we see today.
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A toxic dynamic often manifests between parents and their children when the parents act out of their self-interest and, essentially, narcissism.
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The Trump family—which now represents for the United States-- has long scorned ethical behavior when it conflicts with their self-interest.
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Companies must educate society about the dangers of driving and why it's in our self-interest to let automation rule the road.
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It slams the door on any federal judicial backstop to rampant partisan self-interest at the expense of fair and representative elections.
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"I don't know if there is any goodwill, but there is mutual self-interest so I hope they can find it," Sen.
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If we leave the Arab states, they won't implode --- they will turn to Russia in their own self-interest and self-preservation.
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At every stage of this process people were blinded to the dangers of what they were doing by their own self-interest.
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In contrast Trump's voluntary exit "would occur only if he sees it as very much in his financial self-interest," Tribe believes.
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Finally, the claim that it was in King Bhumibol's self-interest to urge Thai people to favour moderation over wealth is absurd.
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Is the queen just so consumed by her lust for revenge at this point that she's blind to her own self-interest?
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To Donald Trump, the only thing that matters is Donald Trump — and he'll step on anyone else in pursuit of self-interest.
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But if you believe most of all in the self-interest of Donald Trump, as Donald Trump does, it's a total disaster.
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Big tech companies are on board, owing to a mixture of self-interest and a sincere feeling that something must be done.
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It&aposs just -- you can&apost talk a nation out of abandoning what it sees as its strategic self-interest that way.
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A worry from the left is that workers on boards might, in self-interest, behave as badly as they think capitalists do.
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If innovators, investors, the courts and corporate self-interest cannot curb fossil fuels, then the burden must fall on the political system.
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Shifting blame to the government and research community, Berman assures me that he and his colleagues are not motivated by self-interest.
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I mean, it is outrageous to me that we don&apost see our own self-interest because of Saudi money, Saudi oil.
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The political Clinton is regarded as a strong, chilly, no-nonsense contender, not a passionate warrior for causes beyond her self-interest.
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Working in your own self-interest is mistaken for a political act, and accruing money and power becomes an unquestioned feminist goal.
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They'll see through his rhetoric—if they don't already—and only make deals based on their self-interest, not on Trump's flattery.
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Small donors may be more willing to "waste" money on losing candidates because they are driven more by emotion than self-interest.
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He said countries should overcome their "narrowly-defined self-interest" and coordinate policies from the broader perspective of achieving sustainable economic growth.
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GOP politicians give corporations what they want not only out of naked self-interest, but in the interest of their former colleagues.
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In other words, while NATO might provide limited deterrence against Russian adventurism, this is largely predicated on adversely impacting U.S. self-interest.
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Good diplomatic and economic relations with the EU are in Turkey's self-interest -- and Erdogan's domestic popularity rests on Turkey's economic success.
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But tomorrow's game could be just as exciting if we make concussion-inducing hits against the self-interest of players and coaches.
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Harris said Monday that she was prepared to fight for leadership that prioritizes the needs of average people, rather than self-interest.
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Many politicians have not met the aspirations of Libyan people, acting instead in their own self-interest and viewing compromise as weakness.
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The largely white upscale wing of the Democratic Party is far more liberal on economic policy than its self-interest would suggest.
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So, viewed purely from the lens of North Korea's self-interest, it would not be rational to give up the weapons lightly.
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Self-pardon thus would do little to advance a president's self-interest, yet it would do much to undermine our national interest.
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Pushing for transparency on sustainability issues, and asking money managers to consider climate change, is really the purest form of self-interest.
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Elevating other women is actually an act of self-interest: It's not so lonely at the top if you bring others along.
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These results show that self-interest, when construed in evolutionary psychological terms, plays a powerful role in predicting people's attitudes toward abortion.
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That charity is a beautiful thing regardless of the impulse that drives it — whether religious, secular, or out of pure self-interest.
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And I haven't seen even an implausible proposal for a decentralized system that doesn't rely on price incentives and self-interest – i.e.
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American enlightened self-interest, beneficial both to the United States and its allies, has been replaced by a crude America-first self.
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Self-Interest drove the conspirators to kill caesar "I think politicians don't have a firewall between ideals and practical benefits," Strauss says.
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Mitch McConnell, Barr and almost everyone else in the G.O.P. have made themselves numb to his abhorrent actions because of self-interest.
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Free-market enthusiasts celebrate Adam Smith's "invisible hand," which describes how markets harness self-interest to serve the broader interests of society.
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Corporate paternalism might have been born from self-interest, but it helped to create a culture that was hard to shake loose.
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And while the parties are clearly acting in their self-interest, they are doing so in the face of serious political risks.
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"Well, I don't think it is in my self-interest to tutor people on how to dodge a question," Ms. Gross said.
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In its totality, fried chicken is an odd compression of American history, capitalist self-interest, communal identity, pop art, and food nirvana.
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Pressed to explain Mr. Maduro's resilience, Mr. Levitsky cited one of the only forces more powerful than economic self-interest: ideological polarization.
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When the next day he says something else, that's because his perception of the circumstances or his self-interest has changed. Inconsistency?
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As a rule of thumb, with anything FIFA does, it is wise to locate the self-interest and work backward from there.
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But especially if you're a person with any kind of privilege, you have a responsibility to think beyond your own self-interest.
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But the one unsurmountable establishment fear surrounding a Sanders win is something more like naked self-interest, and its attachment to power.
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These issues can no longer be left in the hands of those whose own self-interest conflicts with that of the citizenry.
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Delusions, then, were misread as noble ideals, just as cruelty and greed are now being misrepresented as harsh but necessary self-interest.
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This is a political opportunist who will flop with the winds and do whatever it takes to serve his own self-interest.
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Each group is held together by interlocking business ties and sometimes family connections, and driven more by self-interest than ideological concerns.
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Well, there's two reasons why you should speak out: Either because you believe in it or because you have a self-interest.
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The most encouraging sign is that, for all of Kim Jong-un's brutal eccentricity, he generally acts in his own self-interest.
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There are two possible explanations for Amazon's move: capitulation to political pressure, which is how the firm is presenting it, or self-interest.
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In its simplest models, prices elegantly balance supply and demand, magically directing individuals' pursuit of their own self-interest towards the greater good.
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And while she is allowing herself to become more vulnerable, she's still making almost all of her decisions based on extreme self-interest.
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The question is how to persuade those firms to go against their apparent self-interest in order to create a more circular economy.
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The Economist: In the knowledge economy, human capital ought to be valuable and vital—so why are companies acting against their self interest?
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Another reason for voting against one's economic self-interest is the belief that Washington won't successfully implement transformative economic policies –good or bad.
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"Think of the classic corporation as a legalized sociopath: complete and utter self-interest above the well-being of others," he told me.
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In Parliament, the Boris surge is being driven less by the self-interest of the affluent than by the panic of the petrified.
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What governments ought to do is put mechanisms in place so that when people act in their own self-interest, it helps everybody.
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"I'm not saying that Google doesn't act out of self-interest," says Andrew McLaughlin, who helped start Google's public policy operation in Washington.
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Under attack, he simply mentally rewrites everything, from the First Amendment to US economic history, to retroactively justify his own personal self-interest.
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At best, this China can be persuaded to behave as America hopes when it sees that policy as coinciding with its self-interest.
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Fear poses complex moral dilemmas of the sort that Huggins confronted, in which self-interest and moral principle cannot be so easily separated.
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When tech leaders prophesy a utopia of connectedness and freely flowing information, they do so as much out of self-interest as belief.
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What sets Trump apart is the degree to which he acts first in his own self-interest, with all other concerns coming second.
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When presidents attempt to serve their political self-interest by generating good objective outcomes for the American people, democracy works for us all.
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And given Trump's extraordinary weaknesses as a general election candidate, it also runs counter to the most basic sort of political self-interest.
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One way to ease the fatigue is to show the American people how U.S. engagement and global leadership is in their self interest.
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During today's discussions about tariffs, free trade, and the limits of internationalism, much of the debate focuses on national power and self-interest.
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But Flynn's loyalty to this alt-right foreign policy proved less powerful than his own self-interest and desire to protect his son.
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Scottish philosopher Adam Smith famously identified the "invisible hand" of rational self-interest and its role in enabling nations to achieve economic success.
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This is for a variety of reasons, including that prosecutor's own self interest, but there's also, you know, the whole concept of justice.
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ZA: How does a society get from thinking in our own self-interest to thinking about what is better for the whole community?
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I've said before in these conversations that I think Trump has some modicum of self-control, but it's mostly linked to self-interest.
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If not for the Greatest Generation, then maybe their own self-interest will succeed in getting younger Americans to abide by the quarantine.
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But it's somewhat easier to imagine experiments at the state level, where a certain kind of political self-interest could grease the wheels.
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That helps explain why the authors of this latest report felt they had to appeal more forcefully to humanity's own naked self-interest.
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Instead, societies often spin racist ideas out of self-interest — to further political or economic goals — and these ideas then lead to hate.
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Imagine what could be if we did the same things we say we do for our daughters out of our own self-interest.
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That helps explains why the authors of this latest report felt they had to appeal more forcefully to humanity's own naked self-interest.
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His designs on Independence Day call to mind those sorts of leaders: their vanities, shamelessness and equation of national interest with self-interest.
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Let's set aside, for the moment, the duty of lawmakers to the Republic and the Constitution and instead consider simple political self-interest.
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" She is democratic in her censure, flaying the left for its "slick, unreflecting cynicism," the right for its "unembarrassed enthusiasm for self-interest.
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That person will also represent me, so I will look to those who put this noble pursuit of public interest above self-interest.
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Overfishing is a tragedy of the commons, with individuals and countries motivated by short-term self-interest to over-consume a limited resource.
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This is how bad systems corrupt good individuals — they do it by enlisting our self-interest to convince us to betray our values.
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In a system based purely on competitive individual self-interest, those who are advantaged get to race out further ahead year by year.
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But Americans shouldn't be surprised if their senators fall short of those expectations, either for ideological reasons or out of political self-interest.
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They have obviously lost sight that they took an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, not their own self-interest.
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I need to change my mindset so that it does not solely focus on my self-interest, but also the interests of all.
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Those with autism often say whatever is on their mind — no filter — and have difficulty lying even when it's in their self-interest.
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Democratic elites may eventually come around as well, but might in a narrow sense cut against their own self-interest in doing so.
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But can you explain why some people seemingly don't act in their own self-interest on policies like health care and tax cuts?
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"The findings suggest that anyone who acts only in his or her narrow self-interest will be shunned, disrespected, even hated," Willer said.
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Empirical research shows that people rarely vote for their narrow self-interest; seniors favor Social Security no more strongly than the young do.
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Is there a person in American who genuinely trusts this President to put anything at all ahead of his own crass self-interest?
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While these three powers pay lip service to the idea of peace in the Middle East, narrow self-interest increasingly drives their thinking.
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Republicans: Lawmakers from the president's party say his actions in the Ukraine matter were fueled by concerns about corruption, not political self-interest.
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Can environmentalists avoid prioritizing human self-interest without succumbing to the temptation to anthropomorphize nature as having a humanlike dignity of its own?
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No matter Russia's true disdain for international law, it must at least pretend to be law-abiding to achieve its rational self-interest.
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And his calls for restraint and peace, even if driven by self-interest, seemed to play well around the world, even in India.
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What does he want: Though a representative for Musk didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, Musk's self-interest appears pretty clear.
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Although the president and Mr. Cook are not personal friends, associates say they have developed a relationship of professional admiration and mutual self-interest.
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For most Googlers that means a willingness to look beyond their own or their company's self interest to what's better for society at large.
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In fact, I think the choices might become so difficult that even fairly good people will get wrapped up in short-term self-interest.
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Ultimately, Croft thinks Saudi Arabia will act in its own self interest by backing a production cut when the group gathers on Dec. 6.
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It's only when Cruz himself was insulted that he stood up to Trump, because Cruz has no greater principle than his own self-interest.
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"The framers were very shrewd about political power, they were always trying to constrain actors who were acting in their self-interest," he said.
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Members of groups, Vanderbilt's Kam explained, often prefer "the self-esteem they derive from where their in-group stands," regardless of material self-interest.
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Somewhere between Obama's retreat from the Middle East and George W. Bush's invasion of it is an approach based on cautious national self-interest.
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Self-interest rather than pure principle probably explains why presidents have avoided interfering with interest-rate setting over the past quarter of a century.
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We also need people from Simchowitz's level of economic privilege to part with their immediate financial self-interest and help support a resistance movement.
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As is always true with political money, there is no easy way to delineate where ideology ends and where self-interest and corruption begin.
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Over long days students would identify negative patterns, look inward for purpose, and set out to pursue their own self-interest above everything else.
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The government, he explains, has enough "self-awareness" to recognise that turning a blind eye to tax shirkers is in its political self-interest.
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Many in Mexico think their best chance of curbing Mr Trump's worst instincts is by persuading friends who can appeal to his self-interest.
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For decades non-economists have attacked the assumptions underlying economic theory: that people are perfectly informed maximisers of their own self-interest, for instance.
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Scaramucci and the big Wall Street firms that have been fighting the fiduciary standard for years do so for a single reason: self-interest.
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One could easily argue that the closed content ecosystem of Apple and Amazon Alexa are examples of the companies maximizing their own self-interest.
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Mr Johnson's tax cut is a beggarly plea for party members' votes based on self-interest, but with little appeal to the broader electorate.
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Huawei's commercial self-interest is irrelevant, they say, pointing to a Chinese law that compels private firms to assist the intelligence services when asked.
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They are moved purely by self-interest—by the desire for place, position and preferment, and by the endless play of faction and connection.
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"Whenever you see those kinds of splits, you know there may be a place for blacks' self-interest and whites' racial resentment," Nteta says.
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Unless that happens, the Affordable Care Act cannot survive the rational self-interest of people who still want to keep the plans they like.
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According to this view, self-interest would counsel the authorities in Brussels and Berlin to do all in their power to help Mr Renzi.
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To those who believe in an America First proposition, pro-active ethical behavior on the world stage is in our ultimate national self-interest.
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Facebook declined repeated requests to interview Zuckerberg on this topic (no surprise given the company's zero-tolerance policy on acknowledging its own self-interest).
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It's time for him to stop putting up needless delays and to finally put the people of North Carolina above his own self-interest.
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Other than Brace, this Chichester guy might be the only person in the Taboo universe who does not act out of pure self-interest.
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"You have so many different artists all pushing individually out of their own self-interest, but also pushing your music as well," Demers notes.
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Where the philosopher presented altruism as a path to a higher self, Mr Blair sometimes seemed to put more stress on enlightened self-interest.
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China talks of global partnership and stewardship where the Trump administration publicly extols mercantilist self-interest as the guiding light of U.S. foreign policy.
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But their festive mood stems mostly from self-interest: The U.S. president has arguably lifted their political and economic fortunes for years to come.
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Unfortunately, the clearest way for the United States to advance its self-interest — that is, a change of regime in Iran — is not viable.
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Although, the American drive for self interest can impede the execution of this strategy and at times make its policies seem incoherent and ineffective.
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"This was a crystal clear example of him putting his own self interest ahead of the needs of the country," Delaney said of Trump.
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Jay Z, career capitalist and relentless self-interest advocate, has done as much as anyone to remake hip-hop as a flawlessly salable product.
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When it comes to sycophancy, "it's not like the source is always evil or thinking about his or her own self-interest," said Martin.
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The small-business lobby may well want an activist justice who it believes will rule in its favor, but that's self-interest, not principle.
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Because when we prevent large corporations from curating our access to information along the lines of economic self-interest, what are we really preventing?
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States have a self-interest in continuing the reductions: It saves money, and studies show higher incarceration is no longer effective for fighting crime.
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Young people probably won't give up their self-interest for nothing, though; rewards for good behavior go a long way in creating the shift.
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Middle-class and working-class Republican voters, he insisted, were voting against their own economic self-interest and getting worse than nothing in return.
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Was de Tocqueville right that we would just disappear into silos of self-congratulation and self-interest, or can we hope for something better?
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Norms can't be defended in their own right, so they're defended as something that will, ultimately, be in everyone's best self-interest to observe.
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But there's also a self-interest in avoiding the ire of public health officials who wouldn't be happy with the industry advertising to youth.
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"Expressing a white identity or group self-interest, or an ethno-traditional national identity which includes a white-majority component, isn't racist," he writes.
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Regardless of the mystical properties claimed for it, the invisible hand of self-interest depends on the visible and often heavy hand of government.
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Committing to the global task represents the most just and ethical path; it is also the path most clearly in the nation's self-interest.
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If that intent was profoundly shaped by their racism or self-interest as slaveholders, then this way of seeing the Constitution is troublingly myopic.
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Someone with enough money and enough self-interest will likely make sure that, no matter what, Twitter will continue in some shape or form.
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But it turns out economists have studied how to get people to set aside self-interest and to spur this kind of collective action.
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Yes, we believe that people tend to act in their self-interest and don't usually pass up obvious opportunities to make themselves better off.
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He rejects distinctions between right and wrong for an ethos of explicit self-interest that Americans have never before seen from the White House.
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By Thursday evening, many had seized on the paper as evidence that the authors had purposely withheld valuable information out of academic self-interest.
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"He has used the office of the presidency to boost himself and put his own self-interest above the national interest," he told NPR.
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Allegations of nepotism, emoluments violations, channeling business to Trump properties and more have already painted a picture of a President doggedly pursuing self-interest.
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Perceptions that his national security strategy is irregular and incoherent at best -- and more likely driven by naked self-interest -- will continue to proliferate
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Her fragility, though, is deceptive, and Jane's anxiety over her boss's perceived victims must be tugged back into line with a steely self-interest.
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Trump, I'd argue, is tapping into a grass-roots phenomenon — let's call it regulation rage — that is more about psychology than about self-interest.
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We can do better, and we must, if only in our own self-interest, because trouble for birds means trouble for us as well.
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Does he want to jump-start the Hirst market out of self-interest, art experts ask, to raise the value of his own holdings?
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Ginsburg praised retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for putting "country above party and self-interest" and working "collaboratively to solve problems," the Post reported.
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It's a poor reflection on both Trump and congressional Republicans that the President seems unable to see what is in his own self interest.
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Are we to make decisions by the standard of America's self-interest, or are we to surrender our interests for some other, "higher" objective?
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America's self-interest is thus defined not by the preservation of freedom but by the enshrinement of the accidental fact of one's national birthplace.
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In the past, Oval Office speeches have been reserved for true national crises, not those manufactured to serve a president's own political self-interest.
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By breaking the normal "code of silence," several of Gallagher's platoon members put the integrity of the armed forces above their own self-interest.
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Baseball's owners and operators had failed to confront it with anything like consistency because to do so seemed to cut against their self-interest.
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Amid criticisms about self-interest and sometimes militant tactics, union participation rates in South Korea have halved since the 285.5s to around 262 percent.
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Knowing that those fools out in Kansas are voting against their own self-interest and that the trouble is Kansas doesn't know any better.
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Make no mistake, this rapacious partisan behavior is what the Supreme Court has just empowered with no realistic checks and balances on partisan self-interest.
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The motivation behind these public-minded companies is typically a blend of a sincere interest in social responsibility and corporate self-interest, according to experts.
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The FBI's self-interest was evident to Ed Saxon, the Silence of the Lambs producer who was the bureau's point person on the 1991 film.
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Other aides may be more strongly moved by self-interest, and a desire to keep their good name from being soiled by an unfit boss.
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As ferocious as they have been in defense of free-market ideas, the Koch brothers are also acting out of tangible self-interest, Mayer argues.
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And he scorns intervention for ideological causes, such as regime-change, democracy and foreign nation-building, preferring to concentrate on America's national self-interest instead.
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The second broad error made by optimists was to imagine that Western governments and organisations could explain to Chinese leaders where China's self-interest lay.
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It's begun to think of the women of Trump's inner circle as active participants in his presidency, mostly looking out for their own self-interest.
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What happened eventually is the draft petered out, first of all, and I think most of the white kids were basically motivated by self-interest.
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As much as it's an outright comedy, it's not hard to read between the lines of what can happen when self-interest and politics collide.
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Himid's work thus continues to link the contemporary world to a dark history rooted in the repressive strategies and outcomes of European economic self-interest.
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I can only infer that with the deterioration of Russian relations and the increased terrorist threat to Europe, changes were made out of self-interest.
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Self-interest or at least, should you work in a group, close-interest is not the only moral absolute with which survival games must work.
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Their efforts, unfortunately, only bolster his belief that people generally act out of self-interest and not on the basis of any higher moral values.
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Even the militias supporting the GNA are doing so out of self-interest, says Anas El Gomati of the Sadeq Institute, a Libyan think-tank.
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At every step of the way, the NFL and the New York Giants worked to advance their own self-interest and engaged in damage control.
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That fear is grounded in concrete changes: the story of American self-interest is a continuous one that nonetheless contains major institutional and economic shifts.
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But individual demographic groups present a clearer picture of voters pulled in different directions by their ideology, identity, self-interest or attitudes about the president.
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They want legislators to follow the will of the people they represent – but, eight in 10 believe self-interest and campaign contributors drive decisions instead.
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But it's also possible to see religious freedom concerns as driven by self-interest -- the right to practice one's faith without state interference, Kurzban said.
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I would call it any kind of allegiance for which you are willing to check your own desires for reasons other than pure self-interest.
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It was also Trumpism at its finest: raw power, stripped of any pretense or principle, hostile to scrutiny and judiciousness, exercised purely in self-interest.
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Such suits argue that the directors are acting in their own self-interest and can't be trusted to act in the interest of the company.
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"Not even for a moment did I pursue my own gains and I have lived without one iota of self-interest," Park said on Tuesday.
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Americans long have been entranced with the idea of the political outsider who puts self-interest aside to battle Washington's wrongdoers and set things right.
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Immediately and intelligently, the new president challenged an entire generation of young Americans to think beyond stifling policies of narrow self-interest or gratuitous antagonisms.
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Love, at least as Jesus articulated it, has to do with seeking the good and the welfare of others before one's own enlightened self-interest.
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"'Leisure Life' is a song about the motivations of self-interest and having a bloated sense of entitlement," Lee wrote in an email to Noisey.
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All major regional actors have a greater self-interest in destroying ISIS's remnants than the US; that interest encourages cooperation with US anti-terror efforts.
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Since carbon emissions respect no boundaries, it is clearly in our self-interest to act in a manner that encourages other countries to emit less.
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Yet for the most part, these efforts were narrowly aligned with a company's self-interest, usually in the form of lowering taxes and loosening regulations.
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Whether Gaveston felt the same, or was operating out of calculating self-interest, is one of many questions "Lessons in Love and Violence" leaves open.
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While Alcibiades eventually goes over to the Spartans, revealing that self-interest comes before national interest, Nicias suffers what Thucydides describes as an "undeserved" death.
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"To me, the definition of stupid is a person who doesn't exercise some kind of enlightened self-interest," Mr. Ward said in a recent interview.
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When Democrats think about so-called "Trump Country," they see a land of hopeless Trump-loving racists who insist on voting against their self-interest.
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A political leader who thrives on chaos, relishes disorder and governs on the principle of narcissistic self-interest is virtually certain to find defeat intolerable.
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"In the U.S., self-interest dominates our behavior on the road, on escalators and anywhere there is a capacity problem," he wrote in an email.
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They often look as though they fear getting their feet wet in the swamp of ambition and self-interest that all politicians must wade through.
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They commended the emerging bourgeois class, and placed much stock in its instincts for self-preservation and self-interest, and in its scientific, meritocratic spirit.
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It is time for U.S. and Chinese officials to act upon self-interest, not continue down the rabbit hole of a zero-sum tariff war.
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"With trade talks set to get underway, the UK government must step back and put the country's interests ahead of the Tories' narrow self-interest."
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In other words, they started acting in their own self-interest but deluded themselves into thinking that it was really for the betterment of Rome.
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We have this system of capitalism, which precedes neoliberalism, and that system is predicated on greed and self-interest as reliable guides to human behavior.
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Even so, she's found that juries are inconsistent and sometimes harsh in how they judge victims (and perpetrators) who act against their own self-interest.
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But it's an entirely different question whether churches should be participating in state-run programs like that one — when they consider their own self-interest.
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If state legislators refuse to address voter suppression out of partisan self-interest, voters have now shown that they can make voting easier on their own.
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In some idealized capitalist model, Valve would see review-bombing as a bug that made customers less satisfied and fix it out of pure self-interest.
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For a long time, liberals have been asking what's the matter with Kansas—why do so many working-class whites vote against their economic self-interest?
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If you don't feel, or can't show, any concern, pain or understanding for the persecution and demonization of others, at least show a little self-interest.
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Yet while a few stock ideas are associated with him—the "invisible hand", the division of labour, self-interest—what he actually wrote is often misinterpreted.
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Caro notes that while there was a lot of gratitude for what Johnson had done, "self-interest" dictated that members remain on good terms with him.
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Mr Trump stands for something different and darker: a contemptuous repudiation of the use of American strength in the service of anything other than self-interest.
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He will be remembered as among the most eloquent champions of an American-led international order that took a generous view of the superpower's self-interest.
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My point is not that outsiders are more corrupt than insiders, nor that everyone's actions right now should be seen as reflecting nothing but self-interest.
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Park reiterated in a statement to the Constitutional Court read by her lawyer on Monday that she did not act in self-interest while in office.
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They reveal a striking pattern of a president who consistently uses the Oval Office to advance his explicit self-interest seemingly without regard to national interest.
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In essence Mr Trump described a world order in which the good battle the bad out of patriotic self-interest, with all other details left blank.
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Mutual self-interest will ensure that a high degree of security co-operation between the EU and Britain will continue whatever the outcome of trade negotiations.
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But certainly other approaches are possible, too—ranging from left-wing forms of quasi-eco-socialism to right-wing forms of authoritarian nationalism and self-interest.
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If the protected class, as you call them, was wise enough to see beyond their own immediate self-interest, they'd be playing the long game here.
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So, it makes sense that Google is taking advantage of our own self-interest by creating a shortcut to your accounts page when you Google yourself.
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Do you know science teachers, especially at the K-12 level, who simply refuse to talk about evolution in the classroom out of professional self-interest?
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Investors need to choose good managers but must be wary that the managers may be incompetent, or, rather more often, act in their own self-interest.
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Christie was right, even if he did have a self-interest in coming off as the blunt-spoken truth teller of the field at the debate.
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"Low will not submit to any jurisdiction where guilt has been predetermined by politics and self-interest overrules legal process," he said via email on Friday.
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When citizens believe elected leaders are not virtuous or have only self-interest in mind, that public corruption is the rule, not the exception, uprisings occur.
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Remember that your woman makes all of her choices out of her own self-interest—otherwise, she wouldn't be getting all these abortions, now would she?
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The only good news for the United States is that the Russian and Chinese roles in Afghanistan are much more driven by self-interest than hostility.
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The author and racing historian Doug Nye, who has also written about Seaman, says that he possessed, "a degree of selfishness, self-interest and self-obsession".
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Trump's decisions are powered by a mixture of self-interest and instinct -- a sense of what makes him look good, even if it hurts the country.
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It intended to pursue its own narrow self-interest regardless of its obligations until the FCC found its conduct so egregious as to merit administrative review.
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Washington was one at Trenton, but even he, in secretly buying land in violation of the law, shaded the truth in pursuit of his self-interest.
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When people have a decisive voice in government, they are guided by self-interest, and put their short-term concerns before those of neighbors or partners.
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Friendship symbolizes a spirit of love and fellowship, in which diplomacy based on self-interest is cast aside, and the sharp tone of classic politics disappears.
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The president has a higher duty to faithfully enforce the laws, but only a man capable of putting country over self-interest would perform that duty.
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If Rich tries to short-circuit the human tendency toward narrow self-interest through an appeal to morality, then Wallace-Wells doubles down on that tendency.
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His skepticism of NATO buttressed the narrative that the US gets taken advantage of by other nations and that it needs to reassert its self-interest.
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The objectives of the business class focused narrowly on self-interest without any regard to the consequences of the damage and decline to average wage earners.
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The sentimental take on having a child is that it pushes you to look beyond yourself and place the needs of others over narrow self-interest.
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There is a good chance, analysts added, that producers such as Russia and Iraq may decide that going along with cuts is in their self-interest.
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But my work as a psychologist has taught me that adolescents always have reasons for making choices that seem to be against their own self-interest.
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Members of the founding generation abhorred the very idea of party, a term that conjured up shady cabals placing self-interest ahead of the public good.
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For those who believe American policy should be about more than the naked pursuit of self-interest, the continuing veneration of Kissinger in Washington is appalling.
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" In his statement, Mr. Marino referred to Mr. Rannazzisi as "the subject of a professional conduct investigation" whose "assertions may be motivated by financial self-interest.
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One of Silverman's recurrent ideas is how blind we can be toward those we claim to adore — a blindness induced by self-interest, immaturity or ignorance.
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"I am kind of disgusted that after nine months, the self-interest is still outweighing the national interest in our caucus in some ways," he said.
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Mr. Trump has ushered in a fresh era of noxious manhood wherein bullying is conflated with toughness and self-interest is more important than self-respect.
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Is it scary to see the way a lot of people seem to turn inwards and hoard supplies or toilet paper and act in self-interest?
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They are not waiting for Washington or their state governments, but are acting in their own local collective self-interest, nurturing adaptation from the bottom up.
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"Within days of his inauguration," Luce writes, "Trump had killed the remaining spirit of enlightened self-interest that defined much" of post-World War II America.
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Instead there's just a mix of business-class and blue-collar self-interest and a trollish, "If liberals are for it, we're against it" anti-intellectualism.
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We will be trapped in the classic prisoner's dilemma, where if each side continues acting in its own perceived self-interest, both will be worse off.
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A president who puts his self-interest ahead of the public good and the nation's security poses a threat to the daily lives of every American.
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Their caution had little to do with wisdom or altruism and everything to do with self-interest: Dictators are all about surviving and remaining in power.
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He went off at me, berated me for not handing it privately, told me I was acting in my own self interest and basically belittled me.
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As happens with any global crises nowadays, a handful of opportune users are also hashtagging #coronavirus for personal content and other self-interest values, like clout.
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Mr. Kushner has grown increasingly critical of both Mr. Spicer and Mr. Priebus, whom he regards as party establishment figures who operate out of self-interest.
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If nearly half of your compatriots feel deeply at odds with the drift of things, it's a matter of self-interest to try to understand why.
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"You are using First Amendment values as a smokescreen to mask harmful policy decisions that Facebook is making to advance its corporate self-interest," wrote Clarke.
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That is partly driven by self-interest in furthering the technology, he said, but also so that voice computing can become as widespread as mobile computing.
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But even if a person believes countries should only act in their own self-interest, that doesn't erase the need to engage with the broader world.
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"This shows people that we are different and don't do things purely out of self-interest, like the other parties," said 5-Star lawmaker Danilo Toninelli.
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There's a lot of emphasis in our culture on personal freedom, self-interest, self-expression, the idea that life is an individual journey toward personal fulfillment.
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I mean, you've already admitted that greed and self-interest are facts of human nature, so why not have a system that relies on those impulses?
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It's already understood that some unspeakable abuse or deception has been abetted or let slide, whether out of self-interest or self-preservation, ignorance or fear.
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But if he's pardoning other people, it may not be so simple even if it's more or less apparent that he's acting out of self-interest.
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It was privatized and sold, and then the fate of that future was entrusted to the rational self-interest of corporate institutions and the children of oligarchs.
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If you believe that human beings are perfectly rational, you can leave them alone to make the choices that will best satisfy their needs and self-interest.
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It will be in Trump's self-interest to draw upon what we have learned in the past decade about what would improve the circumstance of working people.
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One Chinese diplomatic source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said China expected British self-interest would ultimately deliver a win for the "remain" team, led by Cameron.
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Arya, on the other hand, had been motivated by self-defense and self-interest — the exact opposite of the House of Black and White's philosophy of abnegation.
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As Amazon continues its march towards dominance, philanthropic efforts will provide Bezos with an argument he is changing the world without any regard for his self-interest.
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Today he sees its pervasive cynicism, self-interest and corruption as threats not only to the country's economic transformation, but to the survival of the party itself.
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Say the terms "selfish self interest" or "quest for adulation" out loud and everyone within earshot is likely to think you're denigrating anyone who pursues such strategies.
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In his best-selling first book, "Give and Take," Mr. Grant made a convincing case that giving unconditionally in the workplace is in one's professional self-interest.
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You could argue that by voting for Democrats, I, like a working-class red-state voter, am also not voting based on my own economic self-interest.
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"It's also about self-interest as a company and how we best serve our customers, because this idea of more diverse companies perform better — that's a fact."
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Rather than any broader principle, the boundaries of his self-interest seem to be the most consistent indicator of what Trump will say or who he'll skewer.
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" The gift, Mauss writes, appears generously given, but this is at best a "polite fiction, formalism and social deceit," behind which lies "obligation and economic self-interest.
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In other words, they have left the fate of the insurance markets in the hands of a president who has mistaken Democrats' self-interest for his own.
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And while that opposition partly reflects self-interest, Wall Street's Warren hatred has a level of virulence, sometimes crossing into hysteria, that goes beyond normal political calculation.
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"Now is the time in financial markets where you can get a return on helping people – usually it's about self-interest or screwing people over," he said.
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The board's views on Trump are scathing: Trump brands himself as an outsider untainted by special interests, but we see a man utterly corrupted by self-interest.
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It is, not surprisingly, self-interest: Money managers are responding to client demand, as well as seeking to improve returns, minimize risk and fulfill their fiduciary duty.
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When that comes into conflict with the rest of the union, as it has on the issue of refugees, it's little wonder that national self-interest wins.
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There is evidence this intervention is driven by the self-interest of military generals rather than national interest, which makes prospects for economic and democratic reforms bleak.
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It often means that boundaries get violated and people are expected to show inappropriate amounts of commitment and loyalty, even when it's not in their self-interest.
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This all-consuming self-interest leads him to change his opinion of people and institutions, depending on how he thinks they are treating him at that moment.
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"But I'm not forgiving people who steal a billion dollars from one of the poorest nations on the planet, and using it for their own self interest."
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Or did she sell him on that idea solely out of self-interest, perhaps hoping he would make the Red Temple's faith the state religion of Westeros?
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Our economic self-interest will be to put that excess capacity to work, reducing industry pricing, and growing our business by taking share from the bigger players.
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If offenders post their bail or use the property as a security against a bail bond, they have a financial self-interest or family pressure to appear.
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The passage of time, the dithering of the Italian political class, the self-interest of foreign governments and the complicity of the international press helped Mussolini survive.
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If Americans are lucky, federal public health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci will be able to overcome these voices and the president's natural tendency toward self-interest.
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Xerox board members "were once again intentionally violating their fiduciary duties to Xerox shareholders by pursuing their own brazen self-interest," they said in a news release.
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He fought with a righteousness mixed with self-interest that caused most city officials to think of him as arrogant (or another word that begins with "a").
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" He also said that the Kurds had fought with the U.S. only out of self-interest, and that "they didn't help us in the Second World War.
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In economic self-interest, Germany is going forward with the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which will run from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany.
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This deeply divided country, where partisanship and self-interest seem to be sweeping away principles and patriotism, is still home to at least two men of integrity.
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Corporate leaders today are steeped in a culture of self-interest and wealth maximization, not the public-mindedness needed to be virtuous stewards of the common good.
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But some lawyers said Bolton and others could use a ruling to justify talking to Congress if they decide doing so would be in their self-interest.
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Movies that pair this kind of self-interest, sexual frankness, and A-list female talent fit in with the recent territory tread by Oceans 8 and Hustlers.
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Although I do appeal to enlightened self-interest — the idea of giving yourself a purpose in life and feeling fulfillment through helping a lot of other people.
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In two-dozen interviews, Yue and other young activists in southern China spoke about the self-interest and materialism they saw among students in China's elite universities.
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Was this the result of Roman politicians elevating their own self-interest over the good of the republic, or was it something deeper happening in the culture?
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We as a society venerate self-interest and have a hard time making sense of acts of self-sacrifice, like giving an organ to save someone's life.
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The argument that has long been made is often an economic self-interest argument — if you don't have these things, you're not gonna have these other things.
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Some of the same systemic problems that plagued Chernobyl—human hubris and complacency, regulatory capture, and self interest in minimizing attention on a disaster—still plague modern society.
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The FRC said this created "serious familiarity and self-interest" and resulted in the loss of independence in respect of eight audits over the course of four years.
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So while this election may be motivated by simple political self-interest, it could end up having major long-term consequences for a vital part of the world.
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After Labour's manifesto launch, the Canary ran an article titled "Laura Kuenssberg's response to the Labour manifesto shows the BBC is moving from bias to naked self-interest".
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And with a casual sociopathic disregard for anything outside of her interests, she pursued an agenda of naked self-interest, and damn anyone who stood in her way.
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Many said they only pray during times of stress, while others said they reach out to God for the sake of others (rather than their own self-interest).
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Bass — a known China bear — has previously admonished American corporations for pushing Trump to strike a deal with China too quickly and out of their own self-interest.
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The club has developed a new sense of its own self-interest and learned in the process that it can move forward through crises still to come. Probably.
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But at a time when populist nationalism is on the rise around the world, matters of culture and identity can sometimes count for more than economic self-interest.
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They view him as a cynic who craftily adopted their worldview out of self-interest, to win over the faction he needs to win the Republican presidential nomination.
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Under his rule, the U.S. will no longer be the guarantor of the international order, but rather pursue national interests unilaterally with only its self-interest in mind.
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It may be because the political scientists and pundits asking the self-interest question believe it's just more acceptable to base your vote on climate change on abortion.
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Rubio is particularly vulnerable to a facts-based reveal, exposing his craven political self-interest as he has repeatedly sacrificed undocumented immigrants at the altar of his ambitions.
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Talk about self-interest: This is taxpayer-owned natural gas going up in smoke, quite literally, instead of being brought to market--all with no consequence to industry.
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Even during stretches when he's marginalized from the primary action, the pieces keep malevolently moving around the board, each character viciously pursuing his or her own self-interest.
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With such clear business self-interest on show, Suri also emphasized that Nokia's focus will be on driving new opportunities via IoT in "a collaborative and open way".
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Scholars have argued they do so out of rational self-interest, because they fear injury to their global reputation, or because their domestic politics favors international law compliance.
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" Priebus accused Clinton of lying to the American people "in order to hide her unethical and reckless conduct as secretary of State while furthering her own self-interest.
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If things still went wrong—parents failing to vaccinate their children against measles, say—then it must be because people were not acting in their own self-interest.
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"The creeping self-empowerment driven by institutional self-interest has to stop," he told the newspaper Die Welt, rejecting proposals for a finance minister for the euro zone.
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Ridker's focus on the Zeitgeist curbs his characters' individuality, but the novel is still an incisive inquiry into the point at which self-interest ends and compassion begins.
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Hopefully, the Puerto Rican government will see the self-interest of its creditors in promoting those debt myths and it will chose not to be swayed by them.
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Arguing that nations should embrace self-interest while calling on them to work together to solve urgent problems like North Korea is not an easy needle to thread.
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That's a shame, since the lives and futures of more than 22 million of them — not to mention the enlightened self-interest of the U.S. — are at stake.
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Shari Redstone's lawyers have asked the court to reject Viacom's request to move up the trial, arguing in court filings the executives were only motivated by self-interest.
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It smacks of self-interest — yet another instance when "party politics trumps the public interest," says Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.
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Media reports often treat police as impartial subject experts on crime, but it's in cops' self-interest to fault something like the Ferguson effect for a crime increase.
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Before and after the adoption of the Constitution, he wrote, states generally granted sovereign immunity to other states — but only as a matter of grace and self-interest.
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"I find that people vote and donate in service of their principles and beliefs about what they think is right, not just their self-interest," Mr. Partovi said.
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Hence the only other sensical hypothesis — namely, Trump's self-interest — which even conservatives need to admit has become much more plausible following Michael Cohen's guilty plea this week.
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When someone who exhibits absolutely zero empathy suggests that an economic shock would be worse than the deaths from Covid-19, it is clearly replete with self-interest.
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When someone who exhibits absolutely zero empathy suggests that an economic shock would be worse than the deaths from Covid-19, it is clearly replete with self-interest.
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If you design a world economy that rewards blind self-interest and makes altruism unaffordable, it's unsurprising that some people start acting like they're in the prisoner's dilemma.
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His long career in the New York real estate world convinced Mr. Trump that all people are prone to shading their views according to their own self-interest.
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People vote in their self-interest — I don't mean it in pejorative way — but [voters think about what a tax will mean] when it comes to their kids.
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Whether it's driven by self-interest (corporate profits, a president's hopes of reelection) or by small government ideology, the approach sends a powerful signal to the party's voters.
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But they kept him around, out of some combination of cynicism, self-interest and curiosity that remains an underexamined and toxic force in the history of our time.
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He even gave a speech saying that some of Mr. Trump's foreign policy decisions were made in his self-interest, not in the interest of the American people.
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You could tell them it's the rational thing to do because it'll end up putting money back into their pockets — in other words, it's in their self-interest.
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Even her emotional apology came across as having a touch of self-interest: she blamed herself for poor judgment, but acknowledged no criminal wrongdoing on her own part.
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Were we clowns for continuing to engage with a man who readily sold self-interest as love, who preached open-mindedness but often supported people who practiced division?
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But I'd argue that it goes back even earlier — we've basically had more than half a century of Congress ceding power, often in their own political self-interest.
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"Max Rose understands what public service is all about: working for the people, not a political party, lobbyists, or your own self-interest," Bloomberg said in a statement.
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Josh Blackman, a law professor at South Texas College of Law, said Democratic officials should strive for more consistency, even if only as a matter of self-interest.
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But even though she initially came back to Oregon in her own self-interest, her final year in green and yellow has taken on a whole new meaning.
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The whistleblower could be a genuine hero moved by conscience with a compelling firsthand story to tell of a president putting political self-interest ahead of national security.
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We applaud the members of the Florida Legislature that courageously voted against their own political self-interest to do the right thing for the safety of our schools.
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Kirkman is being shaped into the ideal president, but darn it, only he is interested in rising above self-interest and doing what is best for the country.
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"Of course it's self-interest because if it gets too much warmer, there won't be any more Winter Olympics because we won't have any more snow," he said.
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Occasionally we encounter a simple tweak in public policy that would be a win-win -— if it weren't for politicians, bureaucrats and stakeholders zealously guarding their self-interest.
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Such a law has no chance of passing the Republican-controlled Senate, and it would not be in Trump's self-interest to sign such a measure into law.
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By calling for punishment were he to violate his oath, Washington made clear that the values of the new republic stood above the self-interest of the president.
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It only means that the incentive structure of bureaucracies, politics and the reality of public choice lead to outcomes that often reflect self-interest instead of public interest.
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In short, we won the right to vote but lost sight of what it meant to vote right, by voting with regard to race rather than self-interest.
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For the future of humanity, not to mention our immediate economic interests, our two countries must recognize our mutual self-interest in a constructive relationship and act accordingly.
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The faithful execution language of the Constitution mandates that presidents and other officials must act for the right reasons and not for self-interest against the public interest.
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Imagine how loudly your most basic, primal self-interest would have cried out to you in that moment, and all the ways you could rationalize accepting the offer.
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Its self-interest is explicit, as if it doesn't care, so those who gave Americans the benefit of the doubt no longer do so, and it does damage.
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And so a game that is inclusive and sensitive about an often marginalized or ignored community also carries a poison of self-interest over economic justice and labor decency.
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This is true even if Trump ignored any self-interest in making all of his decisions, and even if he were to order his subordinates to do the same.
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With the ability to deduct a qualifying donation from your 2016 taxes, many are inspired by altruism—or self-interest—to write that check before the new year hits.
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"Indeed, both Democrats and Republicans have decried it when wielded by their opponents but nonetheless continue to gerrymander in their own self interest when given the opportunity," he added.
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"It will lead, consistent with partisan self-interest, to fewer competitive general elections, pushing political power at the congressional and state legislative level further toward the extremes," he said.
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When each member of the community uses the common good according to their own self-interest, the good eventually becomes depleted and available to no one in the community.
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The second answer is that people act morally out of self-interest, because it is good — and ultimately profitable — to be known as someone who does the right thing.
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What we're seeing is the beginning of Trump's presidential strategy: Pursuing a selfish self-interest for public adulation, while dumping political correctness and devotion to long-held political philosophies.
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Plus, on issues of race, white people probably have a better chance of getting through to other white people because they're not seen as acting out of self-interest.
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People burning their clothes, cutting the Nike swooshes off their socks, and generally acting against their own self interest in the ways with which we've become all too familiar.
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And I think all of them put their own self-interest or self-conception, their own sanctimony ahead of what were normal procedures that should have been followed throughout.
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In the 1970s he set up these hierarchical stages of moral development involving a developmental transition from self-interest to rule-following to concern for more broad human rights.
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We all need to care about Chicago, but President Trump's misguided get-tough approach to violence prevention reduces Chicago to a type of pawn for his political self-interest.
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These days, there is something comforting about watching a scenario in which bad men acting in their own self-interest might inadvertently do something for the good of others.
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In the America of Trump, the purpose of politics is to use government to make more money for oneself, masquerading as populism but glorifying greed, vanity and self-interest.
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Not just because of their self-interest, but because they fundamentally aren't run like professionally-managed businesses, which is fun and awesome until you actually need to do things.
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And WWII nostalgia was a part of this—a look back at a time when Americans had put aside differences and self-interest to take on a national mission.
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Yet absent these "old way" factors—supposing you actually attempted to rely on blockchain's self-interest/self-protection to build a real system—you'd be in a real mess.
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And when the election results didn't come back in the Dems' favor, there was a lot of outrage about how "these people" just don't vote in their self-interest.
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But the popular image of this generation—given its name, in 20163, by William Strauss and Neil Howe—has long been connected with the notion of disruptive self-interest.
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Making this investment will not be an act of charity, but rather an act of self-interest that will benefit us all, our children, our grandchildren and our planet.
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That narrative defied common sense because that would be contrary to their customers' best interests and their own self-interest in not angering customers and losing share to competitors.
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Given how much sectors and regions predominated by private companies and vigorous competition have outperformed those dominated by state-owned behemoths, thoroughgoing marketization is in China's own self-interest.
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Professor Scheve and Professor Stasavage found that democratic countries have not consistently embraced more redistributive tax policies, and most people do not vote strictly in their narrow self-interest.
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In his remarks, Trump sought to encapsulate his worldview through the theme of "sovereignty," suggesting that nations acting in their own self-interest would create a more stable world.
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But it is hard to deny that there are forces dedicated—whether out of well-intentioned ideological belief or self-interest—to slowly dismantling the current veterans' healthcare system.
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It may well have been an act of self-preservation and self-interest, but it is hardly a surprise that many have viewed that act with profound disgust nonetheless.
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"I find only limited support that the political views of US nationalists—as manifest in a favorable view towards Donald Trump—are related to economic self-interest," Rothwell concludes.
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Like his party, Mr. McCain has been caught between his self-interest and his principles, between his instinct to survive and his instinct to sacrifice for the greater good.
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For too long, an imperial presidency has been tolerated and too many members of Congress spend their time posturing and promoting their own self-interest instead of the nation's.
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A spokesman for Lennar, Glenn Bunting, disputed claims that the company had donated to Brookings out of self-interest — and said the alliance was not related to the protests.
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Under the guise of being the "world police" or the "sheriffs of Earth," we instead fell headfirst down a rabbit hole full of oil, money, and nefarious self-interest.
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" However, he stressed that the HBO show is more interested in the bipartisan tradition of hypocrisy and cynical self-interest in Washington that was "true under Washington and Jefferson.
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"We can't stop a state legislature and a governor from doing what they think is in their self-interest," he said during an event at the National Petroleum Council.
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In his book "The Moral Economy," Samuel Bowles, who directs the behavioral-sciences program at the Santa Fe Institute, argues that appeals to self-interest can undermine moral motivations.
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But the exchange captured the essence of an awkward, compulsory yet increasingly close working relationship between two men divided by temperament but Krazy Glued together by shared self-interest.
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There were some fines, but not a single top Wall Street executive went to jail — despite well-documented fraud, deception, using of exotic financial instruments for greedy self-interest.
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They added, "The Xerox board recklessly refused to follow through with the leadership and governance changes we agreed to, demanding unprecedented additional approvals for their own personal self-interest."
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At the extreme, evolutionary psychology reduces people to biological drives, capitalism reduces people to economic self-interest, modern Marxism to their class position and multiculturalism to their racial one.
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As someone who voted for Donald Trump (and would again), I am losing faith in the system and the media, whose manipulation, partisan self-interest and bias are everywhere.
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A more successful policy would have treated Iraq not simply as a battleground with Iran but as an important if flawed partner whose stability is in America's self-interest.
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And he was reminding us, in shocking fashion, about his readiness to sell (and buy) fictions if they serve his self-interest, which he reliably puts before all else.
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But it is more and more clear the president is incapable of learning on the job, rising to the occasion, or speaking with any conviction other than self-interest.
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The country is left with a president who has spent decades doing whatever he thinks is in his self-interest — and a political party willing to protect that president.
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So they deeply resent Mr. Trump's attacks on Ms. Merkel for her refugee policy and his statements that the European Union itself is a "vehicle" for German self-interest.
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I weighed the unknown risks for my son at the theater against the known harm of stewing in depression at home, and I opted for my own self-interest.
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When the public believes leaders are motivated by self-interest and not public interest, faith in government decisions is eroded, no matter how well founded those decisions may be.
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