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Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

~David Rakoff

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We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

~Deepak Chopra

Topics: About Altruism Build Celebrity Cooperation Democratic Fairness Ideals Life Need Public Public Life Sharing Speakers Talk Websites Who

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For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

~Deepak Chopra

Topics: Altruism Art Beauty Been Beings Courage Delusion Experiences Go God He Honor Human Human Beings Itself Love Man Obsessed Relationships Set Social Straw Subjective Then Thousands Thousands Of Years Together Truth Up Years

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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Altruism Among Group Individual Members Mix Results Selection Selfishness Sin Society Versus Virtue

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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Altruism Colleagues Harvard Mathematician Origin Theory Time Two Which

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Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Altruism Egoism Liberty Made Social Struggle Synthesis Women

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I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

~Emmanuelle Beart

Topics: Actress Altruism Am Become Earn Engaged Humanitarian Least Money Think Well-Known Work I Am

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