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• n  someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being

• In the Middle East Nikita Khrushchev posed as an altruist.
• When a church needed $13,000, the altruist gave it; when a ministerial student needed funds to complete his education, the altruist supplied them.
• He smokes cigarets incessantly, speaks confusingly about himself as a dual personality: "John Martin," altruist, idealist; and "hardboiled, almost unmoral" Morgan Shepard.

• philanthropist

News & Articles

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• Staten Island's New Dorp High School students take cougar under their wing (with photos)
  Neglected, abused and injured, Zoe now is thriving thanks to efforts of altruist high school students
  Jan. 12, 2014 - Staten Island Advance

Quotes

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• Peter Gzowski in Globe and Mail
  Back in the 1980s, Peter Gzowski described Pattison as "part altruist, part egoist, partly private, part showoff," and nowhere are the contradictions more apparent than here.