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| eb94494 | Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. | science inspirational altruism | Richard Dawkins | |
| 5c602dd | The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth. | writing-life sacrifice altruism birth-and-rebirth french-authors french-biographers french-biographies french-resistance intellectual-theories public-intellectuals service-to-mankind women-biographers ideologies biography jean-paul-sartre | Annie Cohen-Solal |