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Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
David Rakoff
David Rakoff
David Rakoff
Born: Nov 27, 1964
Died: Aug 9, 2012

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Everybody, Wired, Instinctual, Altruism, Flipped, Switch, Innate

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