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• a  showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others

• These pay-as-you-can cafes have missions that are unapologetically altruistic call it serving up fare Robin Hood style.
• That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the "gift economy," the current term of art for this altruistic approach.
• Other inventions this year may have more altruistic intentions (like Dean Kamen's water purifier) or be more visible on street corners (like those ubiquitous camera cell phones).

• selfless

• egoistic

News & Articles

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• Letters to the editor, June 17, 2013
  Let’s face it, people, Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center is a for-profit operation and is not run by a bunch of caring, altruistic individuals but rather by a corporation run by and for profit.
  June 17, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican
• Why Modern-Day Whistleblowers Are Millennials
  Twenty-somethings: Educated, narcissistic, altruistic. How Generation Y fits the psychological profile of classic whistleblowers. It's not easy to write about Millennials without sounding like a complete demagogue. Depending on whom you ask, we're either narcisstic or altruistic . We want to save the world , or we want to freeload in our parents' basements . We care about issues like online ...
  June 11, 2013 - Inc Magazine

Quotes

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• Esperanza Cabral in IMTJ
  In resolving the Schiavo controversy, it is my judgment that, despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the legislative and executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers' blueprint for... Stanley F. Birch, Jr. http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_F._Birch,_Jr.&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH6rYwiiOSO_z1OxdFoozkC3N8NLQ WESH.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.wesh.com/news/4329320/detail.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGmeSDEYD4dmtoI7qlc-fwvzBXFOg Mar 30, 2005 3090 4346 altruistic Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral says,We issued the order because wanted to make sure that nobody is exploited during the transplantation, and that organs are donated only for altruistic purposes. We want to make sure that illegal traffic of...
• Andy Stern in NBC 11.com
  No one is doing this for altruistic reasons,says Stern.