Sentences with phrase «from altruistic acts»
Kate Douglas suggests that if people get a buzz from altruistic acts, they are not purely altruistic (8 August, p...
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The Oliners cite the definition given in Webster's Third New International Dictionary: «uncalculated consideration of, regard for, or devotion to other's interests...» These formulations suggest that motives of self - interest must be separated from altruistic acts.
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A time - travel favor for Harry is one of Tim's only altruistic acts, though it results in erasing his date with McAdams» Mary from existence.
The fact he gives so much for free is getting on the order of Tim Berners - Lee himself, who invented the Web that made blogs possible and never profited from it — what Stephen Fry rightly says is one of the great altruistic acts of our generation.
Scientists have recently discovered that ants will act in a similarly altruistic fashion — when stricken with disease, the ant Temnothorax unifasciatus will abandon the colony to prevent it from spreading, and wait for death alone.The BBC reports on the scientific findings, which were just published in Current Biology.