[Vision2020] Installment # 40 - Sacrifice

[Jeffh]

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>     Sacrifice:
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>     ... is giving up something of value.
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NOTABLE QUOTES:
> Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed 
> cannnot endure it.... Happiness is not the object of life: life has no 
> object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness 
> to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
> George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Nobel Prize Winner  (1856-1950)

> Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The 
> confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let 
> me live!
> William Wordsworth Poet  (1770-1850);

> Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices 
> required for cooperation with oneself.
> Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician  (1872-1970);

> Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
> Xun Zi Chinese Confucian Philosopher

> Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
> George Santayana Philosopher, Poet, Essayist, Novelist  (1863-1952);






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