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“By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.”

Knows Men Persons Grows Sacrifice Instinct Courtesans Making Sacrifices

Author:Honore de Balzac

“[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.”

Self Belief Christianity Sacrifice Offers Function Instinct Disaster This Life Flaws Primitive Crops

Book:Told by an Idiot

Source: Told by an Idiot

“Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.”

Needs Actors Sacrifice Discipline Instinct Dedication

Author:Matt Smith

“With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?”

People Humans Important Used Humanity Three Left Religious Moral Fate Sacrifice Rocks Worship Instinct Stupidity Cruelty Strongest Gravity Sheer Nothingness Ladders Epoch

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. It's a life and death sport, and it's a sport of sacrifice. It's a humbling sport, and people are coming from humbling circumstances. It's always fun to watch a person that's come from nothing to having everything and losing it again.”

People Thinking Fun Sports Sacrifice Circumstances Losing Instinct Boxing Life And Death Humbling

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.”

Self Sacrifice Glory Instinct Appetite Preservation Innate Self Preservation Insatiable

Author:Jose Marti

“Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”

Self Religious Emotion Moral Sacrifice Instinct Sexuality Courageous Artificial Self Sacrifice Perversion Modification Moral Education

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.”

Knows Years Mean Body Age Pain Life Is Watches Growing Failing Sacrifice Dying Survival Instinct Toil Survival Instinct

Book:Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files