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The old thinking and energies of self-survival and material gain will need to be replaced with a new paradigm of creation, communication and collaboration.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: A New Century of Social Innovation Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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The old thinking and energies of self-survival and material gain will need to be replaced with a new paradigm of creation, communication and collaboration.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: A New Century of Social Innovation Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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Capitalism is successful because it appeals to rather than fights our basic human instinct for self-survival.
Jeff Schweitzer: Why the Tea Party Is Wrong Jeff Schweitzer 2011
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The old thinking and energies of self-survival and material gain will need to be replaced with a new paradigm of creation, communication and collaboration.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: A New Century of Social Innovation Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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I especially admired how Verghese vividly described the primary characters 'unvarnished gut feelings and urges: love and hate, unrequited love and betrayal, excessive self-centeredness, compassion toward others, necessary self-survival actions and the resulting guilt and fear and a willingness to give up one's life for the sake of another.
Reader reviews of Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese. 2009
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There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy — purposeful, and malicious at times, other times just for straight self-survival — on the part of the designated target.
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There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy — purposeful, and malicious at times, other times just for straight self-survival — on the part of the designated target.
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There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy — purposeful, and malicious at times, other times just for straight self-survival — on the part of the designated target.
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And, yes, these conservatives are often malicious and focused not just on self-survival but self centered greed for power, presitige, money, and sex.
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The old thinking and energies of self-survival and material gain will need to be replaced with a new paradigm of creation, communication and collaboration.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: A New Century of Social Innovation Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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