"The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how……" — Walton Goggins

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• We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we… — Mortimer Adler
• The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic… — Jo Brand
• Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed… — Theodore Beale
• A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various… — Dalai Lama
• Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever… — Ayn Rand
• The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,… — Richard J. Foster
• Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always… — Dian Fossey
• Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious… — Karl Rahner
• If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want… — Robert A. Heinlein
• Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein
• There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered,… — Roger N. Walsh
• The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. — Max Beerbohm

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