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			<f2f:quote text="It is thus that man, who can subsist only in society, was fitted by nature to that situation for which he was made. 
			All members of human society stand in need of each others assistance …. [w]here the necessary assistance is reciprocally
			afforded from love, from gratitude … the society flourishes and is happy." author="Adam Smith" ref="Theory of Moral Sentiments"/>
			<p>Would you like to live in a giving, rather than a taking world? Everyone one of has received the priceless gift of life itself. An altruistic desire to give back of ourselves is entirely natural. 
			Our vision is a world not of selfishness, scarcity and fear, but of <a href="http://altruists.org/215">altruism</a>, <a href="http://wiki.GiftEconomy.org/wiki/abundance">abundance</a> and love.</p>
			<p>How helpful is it to study the brain's neurons as separate entities, but not what they can achieve by cooperating? 
			Is not their product, the brain, infinitely more than the sum of its parts? 
			What if humanity itself could work, like the human body, for the benefit of <i>all</i> its members? 
			Even as unprecedented pillage threatens the world with calamity, 
			global communications &amp; new understandings of our interconnectedness with all of 
			life have brought us to the door of a new age...</p>
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