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"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
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"Employment sells out the future life."
"Love costs us much, but we still need it. Wisdom costs us much, but we still seek it. Faith costs us much, but we still practice it. Life costs us much, but we still desire it."
"Love is always by definition a choice."
"Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others."
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
"To strategize a rescue mission irrefutably capable of saving every human being is leagues beyond our ability to comprehend, and enormous beyond any resource we possess to execute. And to embark upon just such a mission fully knowing that without our death the mission will fall to failure is bravery of the greatest sort imaginable. Yet, that is exactly what Christmas is."
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"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."
"The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage."
"As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it."
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