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Achilles' exchange with Patroclus exposes his selfishness: even when the Greeks may be destroyed, he is concerned with humiliation, prizes, and his own glory.
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Selfishness
A life of comfort, security, and prosperity can produce selfishness because people come to believe they deserve continuous accumulation.
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A life of comfort, security, and prosperity can produce selfishness because people come to believe they deserve continuous accumulation.
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"He saw all eyes focused on him, okay? So this is factual, but it's not truthful. Do you understand? It doesn't give us insight..."
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"None that touch me. None I know of. No doom my noble mother revealed to me from Zeus. Just this terrible pain that wounds..."
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"So you, you struck my splendid armor on your back. You lead our battle -hungry Meridians into action. And now, in fact, the black..."
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"I can't even hear the battle cry of Agamemnon. Break from his hated skull, but it's man -killing Hector calling his Trojans on, his..."
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"...to signify my value my my worth and their greed their selfishness is destroying the environment it's destroying the economy and ultimately it's going..."
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"...can actually force them into a civil war by exploiting the selfishness, the egotism of the people. Okay? Basically, the material greed of their..."
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"...the worship of the material world. Capitalism is pure greed, pure selfishness. So, for Orthodox Christians, Western civilization means rejection of God, of faith,..."
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