This is not charity — it is in everyone's self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Education, the Song of Hope] Reference
Palship and partisanship and self-interest tend to prevail. From Wordnik.com. [Three Ethics Questions] Reference
"There's a lot of industrial policy and self-interest here.". From Wordnik.com. [A New Kind of Drug War] Reference
Smith made a very clear distinction between self-interest and greed. From Wordnik.com. [The Capitalist Manifesto] Reference
So how did senators get shamed into voting against their self-interest?. From Wordnik.com. [A Beltway Bungee Jump] Reference
It is self-interest that doesn't even bother to masquerade as ideology. From Wordnik.com. [The New Face Of The Left] Reference
Human motives, the latter argue, come down to one thing: self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [My Fair Monkey] Reference
Ultimately all environmental protection is in everybody's self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [A House Of Cards] Reference
Each has its own vision of the smart grid (not to mention self-interest). From Wordnik.com. [Plugging Into the Future] Reference
But protecting Iraq is a matter of strong self-interest for the Russians. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin's War Games] Reference
Because they've realized greenhouse control is in their own self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [A House Of Cards] Reference
Living inside of both colors, you understand how self-interest blurs ideology. From Wordnik.com. [My Red And Blue Life] Reference
But at any rate, the Scots say, they weren't acting out of cynical self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Mad As Hell] Reference
So it's in the self-interest of the privileged to make sure that the gap is closed. From Wordnik.com. [Neighbors On The Same Planet] Reference
America's efforts toward African safety are driven partly by economic self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Fasten Your Seat Belts] Reference
Maybe so, but the summit made it clear that self-interest was pulling the countries apart. From Wordnik.com. [Shoot-Out In Houston] Reference
Yet this hardly absolves the West of the duty to help, not out of charity, but self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Not-So-Smart Intelligence] Reference
Americans should be concerned, not just for other people worldwide, but also out of self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Flight Risk] Reference
At this moment, Pakistan's leaders have a very narrow self-interest in help-ing the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
It is decentralized, driven by self-interest, excellent at the high end, and increasingly unequal. From Wordnik.com. [We Are What We Treat] Reference
Lake answered these questions by claiming that an activist foreign policy is in America's self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Steering Around The Potholes] Reference
Eagleburger recognized that the Israelis were responding from something deeper than rational self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Bombs Over Baghdad] Reference
The self-interest of the Obama-Biden administration in getting that 60th vote in the Senate is self-evident. From Wordnik.com. [The Keystone Cause] Reference
Creditors are acting to protect their economic self-interest by encouraging companies to destroy themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the 'Empty Creditor'] Reference
Beyond self-interest, his support for the dam is rooted in the traditional notion that bureaucrats know best. From Wordnik.com. [Taking On The Machine] Reference
Both forms of reasoning at this early stage, which roughly coincides with toddlerhood, turn on self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Learning Right From Wrong] Reference
And if we don't do so out of genuine civic concern, shouldn't we at least do so out of collective self-interest?. From Wordnik.com. [A NEW VISION FOR BUSINESS LEADERS] Reference
Pretending that national self-interest will no longer play a role in European economics will not make it disappear. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrating Euroland] Reference
And the book also makes clear that the passage of time has highlighted the self-interest of many powerful speakers. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Sources don't leak to do us favors, but for a complicated series of other reasons that are often out of self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, Rat Out That Source!] Reference
As usual, most Chinese policy changes can be traced back to self-interest, though you won't always hear that from them. From Wordnik.com. [Here's To Spring] Reference
On the contrary, much of history is about people and governments pursuing paths that clash with their clear self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing China Into the Fold] Reference
And, more fundamentally, he believes that politicians who dwell on values rather than self-interest are doomed to failure. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons Of The Pagans] Reference
In many ways, Trump is the perfect symbol of the ills of our society, such as rampant consumerism, self-interest and greed. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL & CORRECTION] Reference
Nor does it have feelings of guilt about a doctrine of self-interest, which it pursues strenuously in its economic activities. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Shadow Of Vietnam] Reference
S.K. Singh, once India's top diplomat, called his U.S. counterparts "" absolutely ruthless in pursuing their self-interest. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Making Sense Of India] Reference
A family's journalistic legacy can end up taking a back seat to its financial and legal self-interest if a company doesn't perform well. From Wordnik.com. [Is Murdoch a Force Too Hard to Resist?] Reference
We remembered that we are part of a cause greater than our individual self-interest, to which we, too, should proudly offer our services. From Wordnik.com. [Do The Nation A Service] Reference
Well, Barak knows that coalition partners often use their leverage at times like this to win concessions on matters of pure self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [It Ain't Over Yet] Reference
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