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“I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.”

Ifs Knows Mean Children Doe Has Beens Self Kids Lost Parent Sacrifice Perspective Married Absolutes Compromise Mates Thumbs Self Sacrifice

Author:Eva LaRue

“It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?”

“Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.”

Men World Long States Found Virtue Sacrifice Highest Absolutes Acknowledge Imperfect Arrangements Readiness

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.”

Years Kind Persons Two Soul Faces Form Suffering Dies Waiting Sacrifice Expression Hundred Absolutes Touching Fulfilled Melting Kinds Of Love Absolute Love

Book:True Love

Source: True Love

“Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.”

Ideas Self Sacrifice Danger Example Acceptance Absolutes Elevating Sacrificing Everything

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”

Heart Mean Self Principles Sacrifice Absolutes Loyalty Loyal Self Sacrifice

Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.”

Ifs Men Reality Lying Desire Values Given Interest Views Business Sacrifice Conflict Destruction Absolutes Aim Trade Threat Practicals Deceit Irrational Conflict Of Interest Personal Desire

Author:Ayn Rand