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> [Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-try-to-teach-generosity-and-altruism-because-we-are-born/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/when-abandoned-women-follow-their-fleeing-males-with-tear-stained/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

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> [Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-try-to-teach-generosity-and-altruism-because-we-are-born-2/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/be-warned-that-if-you-wish-as-i-do-to-build-a-society-in-which/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-try-to-teach-generosity-and-altruism-because-we-are-all-born/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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