#predominant

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#concerned #exclusively #good #others #ourselves

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#black #club #dance #i #last

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#find #predominant #work

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#basically #because #city #education #experience

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#came #down #ethic #failure #fear

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#becomes #both #child #childhood #learning

I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#i #nature #outside #predominantly #rarely

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#conspicuous #effect #face #feature #mind

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor. ↗

— Tim Holden

#born #children #diabetes #every #government