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How To Use altruistic In A Sentence

• This social network encourages people to connect through altruistic acts. Times, Sunday Times
• His use of the term "basically altruistic" is surely intended to be provocative, but what the economist means is that terrorists are often acting out of a desire to help others in their group. Are al-Qaida and the Taliban driven by the desire to help others? | Aditya Chakrabortty
• Well, scallops rock me tadger - isn't that altruistic of George and Dagmar? Archive 2008-02-01
• Within Littoralist art practice, donative art strategies extend the language of the altruistic gift into a more politically efficacious education about the nature of gift giving and reciprocity.
• When this arises together with the aspiration to attain full enlightenment, then you have realized bodhichitta, that is, the altruistic intention to become fully enlightened for the sake of all sentient beings. Training the Mind: Verse 7
• It is in fact the dark evil of laziness and ignorance disguised as an altruistic urge and that is why you rightly feel anxious!
• But if they undermine the norm - by converting altruistic activity to a mere cash nexus - they can fail. Times, Sunday Times
• But those are clichés only to those of cynical persuasion who assume that an ulterior motive lurks behind every altruistic act.
• In her widening influence, growing liberty, and freedom, I see impearled a prophecy of an altruistic era -- a civilization triumphant -- rising against to-morrow's purpling dawn. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
• The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.