Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfi…

Richard Dawkins
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2006). The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition, p.9, OUP Oxford
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