Word: selflessly
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Brown always "worked hard but was not considered intense," Ghoury said. "He is a selfless person...
...extremely good: Gingrich has eight years to begin paying back the loan with an interest rate of 1.5 percent over prime (currently 10 percent). But Dole, who made $500,000 from his Super Bowl "Visa" spot alone, does not need the money, and his offer may well be as selfless as it sounds. "Apparently, it was all Dole's idea," Carney says. "He's never been someone who cared too much about having money. It really seems that Dole saw a chance to help out where he was needed...
...heart and gratitude are with the selfless School Sisters of Notre Dame in their dedication to fighting this insidious disease, which leaves no survivors and threatens us all [MEDICINE, March 24]. My husband died at the age of 67 of Alzheimer's, and within moments of his last breath, I was asked if I would donate his brain to science. My immediate reply, delivered with much anger in my grief, was an emphatic no. Many months later, I thought about what my husband's reply would have been. My hope in writing this letter is that other Alzheimer's families...
...stolid dutifulness. He and Wayne gave it near tragic dimensions in the great They Were Expendable, a terrible obsessional quality in The Searchers. Twice (in Fort Apache and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) they endorsed the creation of elaborate lies in order to lend grandeur to this essentially selfless and military virtue...
...know the journey of their souls is not over. Wrote a 6th century Chinese master: "Although they dwell in seven jeweled palaces, and have fine objects, smells, tastes and sensations, yet they do not regard this as pleasure...[and] seek only to leave that place." Nirvana, the ultimately selfless Buddhist goal of nonbeing, is beyond paradise. Annemarie Schimmel, the great Western scholar of Islam, would agree. She wrote, "Once the journey to God is finished, the infinite journey in God begins...