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“Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.”

Men Mind Mean Self Earth Together Hate Sacrifice Produce Unity Noble Tolerance League Facility Peace On Earth Self Sacrifice

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Excluded from all fellowship at meals, excluded from all sacrifices, excluded from instruction and from matrimonial alliances, abject and excluded from all religious duties, let them wander over ,this earth.”

Earth Religious Sacrifice Duty Wander Meals Instruction Fellowship Alliances Excluded

Author:Guru Nanak

“To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.”

People Men World Wells Earth Desire Humanity Individual Realizing Religious Sacrifice Honest This World Great Things Being Honest Nobility Vulgarity Fatherland Personal Desire

Author:Ernest Renan

“All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family-someway, somewhere, somehow-and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character.”

“The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.”

Needs Humans Earth Universe Imagination Dark Human Beings Levels Darkness Sacrifice Materials Gains Capacity Creator Cosmic Capability Engineering Location Deliberate Optimization

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?”

Important Earth Values Virtue Sacrifice Son Fortune Rewards Genuine Ignorant Portions Mistress Celestial Recompense

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!”

Ifs Way Would Be Earth Lasts Party Generations Sacrifice Agree Population Extinction Population Control

Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

“Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.”

Has Beens Made Earth Christian Nations Sacrifice Civilization Cost Glory Inventory

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS