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House · Season 2, Episode 4

Dr. House and Dr. Foreman in “TB or Not TB”

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Hmmm. So, the great humanitarian's as selfish as the rest of us.

Just not as honest about it.

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