disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others
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not greedy
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"Born on the Fourth of July," director Oliver Stone's account of Ron Kovic's painful passage from blind patriotism to unselfish protest by way of a Vietnam injury that left him a paraplegic, got eight nominations, including best picture.
At the parliament, Sergei Kovalev, a deputy and close friend, said, "Sakharov was intrepid and unselfish in the quest of truth. He was always outside the turmoil of political passions and ambitions.
Mrs. Stuart's brother, Carl DiMaiti, praised his sister as "perhaps the most unselfish person I have ever met," and said she called her parents every night "just to say `I love you.'