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Her leadership, selflessness and competitiveness fit in with the culture being crafted in the Bay.
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These firefighters embodied the courage, professionalism and selflessness that define the wildland fire service.
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Lendeborg’s passing ability and unselfishness will also endear him to Steve Kerr, while his ability to cover ground in transition and run the court should fit well.
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More than any of them, Hart elevated unselfishness to an art form.
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But a wiser course might be to emphasize a kind of counter-nostalgia, reclaiming a mythic past for the forces of tolerance and democratic generosity.
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Perhaps subsequent history shows that his generosity of spirit was misplaced.
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This is a book of profound intellectual altruism and moral urgency that insists on summoning courage despite (or because of) societal and political cleavage.
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Musk did push for structures that would have given him control, and Altman and Brockman became extraordinarily wealthy from an organization built around the language of altruism.
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Trump, for his part, spun the Fund as yet more evidence of his magnanimity.
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But Beijing’s magnanimity isn’t going to transform the continent’s economy.
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“Self-forgetfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-forgetfulness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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