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“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.”

Art Black Religious Prayer Levels Magic Sacrifice Equal Assuming Backgrounds Ritual Religious Rituals Black Art

Author:James G. Frazer

“A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.”

Self Character Causes Sacrifice Bears Equal Saint Denial Martyr Thorough Strength Of Character Misers Self-denial

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.”

Faces Fighting Enemy Knowing Five Sacrifice Battle Equal Bravery Brave Ninety

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce.”

Thinking Knows Mean Made Important Care Earth Animal Sacrifice Honor Equal Eating Beats Take Care Quitting Supposed To Be Meat Cows Rhyme Thumbs Sauce Slam Carrots Stewards Eating Meat

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.”

People Want Important Order Nice Sacrifice Equal Prepared Be Good Merit Being Nice

Author:Paul Arden

“Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Soul Dream Left Sleep Ability Brain Millions Sacrifice Equal Mass Ideals Injustice Deny Dull Loathe Stagnant

Author:Ayn Rand

“A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.”

World Want Persons Stories Sacrifice Willing Equal Plus Life Story Minus

Book:The Contortionist's Handbook

Source: The Contortionist's Handbook

“We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.”

Littles Sacrifice Offers Equal Little Things Philanthropy

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.”

People Country Helping Spiritual Sacrifice Citizens Equal Memorable Colour Swept Away Free Country

Book:Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform

Source: Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform