"Effective altruism – efforts that actually help people rather than making you feel good or helping you show off – is one of the great new ideas of the twenty-first century."
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Steven Pinker, quoted in William MacAskill's Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (2015)
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