quotes about Altruism
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
-- Collis Potter HuntingtonSource : David Starr Jordan (1910). “The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics”
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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 RakoffSource : "Altruism: Better Late Than Never" by Paula Gardner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2016.
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Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
-- Nicholson BakerSource : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
-- Samantha Power -
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It always amused me that there were people working for the good of altruism but also wanting a lot of credit for it. It's just oddly competitive and the environment and the people who decide to work at non-profits are just really funny to me.
-- Issa RaeSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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Source : "Song: "Angels"". 1997.
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“The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.”
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“Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.”
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“In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.”
Source : "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.