Word: unselfish
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...thesis throughout the world follows simple lines: society can survive only if each individual catches fire with the unselfish desire to live by standards of "absolute purity, absolute honesty, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love." Within the movement itself this involves "quiet times" in the Quaker manner providing for communion with God. To the world crisis this spells an attitude sweeping out at a nebulous "materialism" which is today's embodiment of the bad in human nature...
...have given yourselves to each other in unselfish love. Love must always be unselfish, and unselfishness is the true secret of a happy married life. ... It means thoughtfulness and patience, ready sympathy and forbearance, talking over and sharing together the special interests and cares which each of you will have...
McGranahan emphasized the fusion in the German makeup of unselfish idealism with a ruthless nationalism...
...This unselfish act of the Workshop players and the Dramatic Club is appreciated enormously," Campbell stated, as spokesmen for both organizations disclosed the decision of their colleagues...
...sleeper berth, a New England businessman pondered the problem of reconciling his business and his God. When he got back to Bristol, R.I., William H. Smith went to his boss (who is also his brother) and said: "Business is rather a selfish institution. What can we do that is unselfish?" He had an answer ready for his own question: hire a clergyman, at company expense, to further Christianity in New England...