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“I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another.”

Real Support Sacrifice Hundred Instance Faithful Welfare Public Welfare

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.”

Book Written Sacrifice Tree Thousand Hundred Brave Deeds Miles Desert Squares Great Book

Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?”

Years Humans Has Beens Made Said Lasts Asks Five Sacrifice Hundred Ancestor Indigenous

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“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

“High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.”

People Children Mother Pleasure Quality Class Wife Sacrifice Willing Hundred

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.”

Joy Suffering Jesus Sacrifice Return Hundred Eternity Lovely This Day Folds Morrow

Author:Therese of Lisieux