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  • They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from its fellows.†   (source)
  • I am by no means convinced that themotives of the accused were as altruistic as they wish the court to believe.†   (source)
  • He knew that his motives weren't entirely altruistic, yet he couldn't explain even to himself why she mattered so much to him.†   (source)
  • And I'm sure you must admire her altruistic ideas—they'd just fall in with yours, I suppose, now.†   (source)
  • Their discovery: when people are given a small stipend for donating blood rather than simply being praised for their altruism, they tend to donate less blood.†   (source)
  • Isn't he one of the affirmative forces in the Wall, earning money with his salvage business, using it more or less altruistically, teaching his crew of stray kids, abandoned some of them, pregnant one or two, runaways, throwaways—giving them a sense of responsibility and self-worth?†   (source)
  • We are neurologically constructed so that we gain huge personal dividends from altruism.†   (source)
  • First the ladies' man and now the great altruist; well traveled but still grounded; worldly but still cognizant of the things that really mattered.†   (source)
  • It's altruism.†   (source)
  • My motives weren't entirely altruistic, though.†   (source)
  • Los Angeles was the most glamorous, tackiest, most elegant, seediest, most clever, dumbest, most beautiful, ugliest, forward-looking, retro-thinking, altruistic, self-absorbed, deal-savvy, politically ignorant, artistic-minded, criminal-loving, meaning-obsessed, money-grubbing, laid-back, frantic city on the planet.†   (source)
  • "Altruism seems to come more naturally to it than lies," Jared noted.†   (source)
  • Just because we sometimes warned one or two of you beforehand doesn't make us altruistic."†   (source)
  • How many corpses do you intend to pile up before you renounce it-your guns, your power, your controls and the whole of your miserable altruistic creed?†   (source)
  • I'm not altruistic, like you.†   (source)
  • "" The attitudes of a good many soldiers on this matter were more pragmatic than altruistic.†   (source)
  • It was no secret that King Robert had left the crown vastly in debt, and alchemists were seldom mistaken for altruists.†   (source)
  • Though the halfling realized that Cassius would not back away from the plan that he had set in motion, the spokesman's confidence relayed an altruistic spirit to Regis that was genuinely comforting.†   (source)
  • You're not generally considered altruistic.†   (source)
  • If, indeed, it was altruism.†   (source)
  • As if such an altruistic sentiment could have the vaguest effect on this caricature of a Nazi, who was already being besieged by knocks at the door and an irruptive jangle of the telephone.†   (source)
  • I am no altruist, but I guess I owe something to the race that I leech off of.†   (source)
  • Soon she took his altruism so much for granted that on several occasions she knocked on his door asking him in tears to protect her from her benefactor.†   (source)
  • She describes altruism as "heroism lite."
  • Suppose I had never wished to take any money at all, but had set out in pure altruism to serve the people.   (source)
    altruism = unselfish concern for others
  • -or are you becoming one of those abject altruists who has no answer to that question any longer?†   (source)
  • Rearden smiled contemptuously, "Aren't you one of those damn altruists who spends his time on a non-profit venture and risks his life merely to serve others?†   (source)
  • "I didn't know you were so altruistic," said Jimmy.†   (source)
  • One has to be born to wealth in order to know the finer feelings of altruism.†   (source)
  • He had flown there with Rashaverak, whose friendship, he suspected, was not completely altruistic.†   (source)
  • "It's not altruism," Gorku said.†   (source)
  • I was grateful, but knew the authorities had not granted permission out of altruism: they were reading our letters, hoping to glean some information that would assist their case against Winnie.†   (source)
  • "Altruism," Wes murmured.†   (source)
  • Was there something that convinced you this wasn't just altruism on Shay's part …. but part of his faith?†   (source)
  • As altruistic as the rest of us.†   (source)
  • I couldn't trust Shay Bourne's sudden altruistic turnaround; and maybe that meant he had won: I had gone just as bitter and rotten as he was.†   (source)
  • Altruistic.†   (source)
  • Then he glanced at her again, the amusement sharper in his eyes, and said, "You had to put me to a test in order to learn whether I'd fall to the lowest possible stage of altruism?†   (source)
  • Mankind had grown to trust them, and to accept without question the superhuman altruism that had kept Karellen and his companions so long exiled from their homes.†   (source)
  • Suppose, in their altruistic passion for justice and order, they had determined to reform the world, but had not realized that they were destroying the soul of man?†   (source)
  • But it does not include the sphere of the gangster, the altruist and the dictator.†   (source)
  • It's amusing, Howard, to see you in the role of an altruist.†   (source)
  • That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it.†   (source)
  • Well, there are several such altruists in the world today.†   (source)
  • Yet the work of the creators has eliminated one form of disease after another, in man's body and spirit, and brought more relief from suffering than any altruist could ever conceive.†   (source)
  • I'm not an altruist, Gail.†   (source)
  • But I am not an altruist.†   (source)
  • He will risk the stake and the cross; starve, when necessary, in a garret all his life; study women and live on their work and care as Darwin studied worms and lived upon sheep; work his nerves into rags without payment, a sublime altruist in his disregard of himself, an atrocious egotist in his disregard of others.†   (source)
  • Centered in this hub-point, the question of selfishness or altruism disappears.†   (source)
  • Of course, LEAR is not a sermon in favour of altruism.†   (source)
  • Of course, Toohey would tell me that this is not what he means by altruism.†   (source)
  • Altruism is the doctrine which demands that man live for others and place others above self.†   (source)
  • This country was not based on selfless service, sacrifice, renunciation or any precept of altruism.†   (source)
  • He was a sort of one-man holding company of altruism.†   (source)
  • Altruism—the sacrifice of self to others.†   (source)
  • Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?†   (source)
  • As poles of good and evil, he was offered two conceptions: egotism and altruism.†   (source)
  • Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.†   (source)
  • Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose.†   (source)
  • But this is the essence of altruism.†   (source)
  • So after centuries of being pounded with the doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal, men have accepted it in the only way it could be accepted.†   (source)
  • Tell men that altruism is the ideal.†   (source)
  • But the second-hander has used altruism as a weapon of exploitation and reversed the base of mankind's moral principles.†   (source)
  • What begins where altruism ends?†   (source)
  • Such is the nature of altruism.†   (source)
  • In the realm of greatest importance—the realm of values, of judgment, of spirit, of thought—they place others above self, in the exact manner which altruism demands.†   (source)
  • Altruism is of great help in this.†   (source)
  • The Banner ran an expose on the housing racket: the graft, the incompetence, the structures erected at five times the cost a private builder would have needed, the settlements built and abandoned, the horrible performance accepted, admired, forgiven, protected by the sacred cow of altruism.†   (source)
  • Altruism?†   (source)
  • He preaches altruism.†   (source)
  • He invented altruism.†   (source)
  • It's not altruism.†   (source)
  • They were permitted to do it by the general implication that the altruistic purpose of the building superseded all rights and that I had no claim to stand against it.†   (source)
  • You won't be able to, unless you understand that I'm giving you a trust which is more sacred—and nobler, if you like the word—than any altruistic purpose you could name.†   (source)
  • The inspection made the mink coats seem warmer and their wearers' rights to them incontestable, since it established superiority and altruistic virtue together, in a demonstration more potent than a visit to a morgue.†   (source)
  • An altruistic act is an act performed for the welfare of others.†   (source)
  • There's where I ran across 'altruism,' and I remember now how it was used."†   (source)
  • With immortality before me, altruism would be a paying business proposition.†   (source)
  • Spencer I remembered enough to know that altruism was imperative to his ideal of highest conduct.†   (source)
  • She was divinely altruistic, and she was a woman.†   (source)
  • The man, a workman out of employment, is young, agile, a talker, a poser, sharp enough to be capable of anything in reason except honesty or altruistic considerations of any kind.†   (source)
  • It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!'†   (source)
  • Miss Farish's surprise and gratitude confirmed this feeling, and Lily parted from her with a sense of self-esteem which she naturally mistook for the fruits of altruism.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp's impulse for altruistic enterprise was stronger than his cousin's reluctance—manifest primarily in Joachim's silence and lowered gaze—because, barring an admission of a lack of Christian charity, he had no cogent explanation to offer.†   (source)
  • I It was a new idea—the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct from the intellectual and emulative life.†   (source)
  • You meet them sometimes like that, and are surprised to discover unexpectedly a familiar turn of thought, an unobscured vision, a tenacity of purpose, a touch of altruism.†   (source)
  • —Dedalus, said MacCann crisply, I believe you're a good fellow but you have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human individual.†   (source)
  • There was a theological college at Melchester; Melchester was a quiet and soothing place, almost entirely ecclesiastical in its tone; a spot where worldly learning and intellectual smartness had no establishment; where the altruistic feeling that he did possess would perhaps be more highly estimated than a brilliancy which he did not.†   (source)
  • "Then you don't believe in altruism?"†   (source)
  • When a marriageable young woman urges matrimony on an unencumbered young man the most obvious explanation of her conduct is not the altruistic impulse.†   (source)
  • I left the courtyard, wondering whether in fact his gallant gesture had been quite so altruistic as I supposed.†   (source)
  • …a) acquaintance initiated in September 1903 in the establishment of George Mesias, merchant tailor and outfitter, 5 Eden Quay, b) hospitality extended and received in kind, reciprocated and reappropriated in person, c) comparative youth subject to impulses of ambition and magnanimity, colleagual altruism and amorous egoism, d) extraracial attraction, intraracial inhibition, supraracial prerogative, e) an imminent provincial musical tour, common current expenses, net proceeds divided.†   (source)
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