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altruism
noun as in unselfish concern
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"At the end of the day, given certain circumstances and under certain pressures, altruism will thin and self-interest surfaces."
What astonished him was their complex social structure, and evidence of what he believed to be signs of altruism.
At the end of the day, as motivated by altruism as I am, I don’t want to be Pollyannish about what voters’ expectations of themselves and their neighbors are.
Often, body-donation is driven by simple altruism, she says: "A lot of people are either educated or interested in education."
"The characters' excessive altruism was disturbing - almost to the point of seeming unhinged," reads a comment on popular South Korean discussion site Nate Pann.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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