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"Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious."
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"Employment sells out the future life."
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"Love is always by definition a choice."
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"You have to lose something to gain anything."
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"More so God didn't choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son."
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"Sacrifice precedes any success."
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"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."
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"Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war."
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"Is Tyson okay?" I asked.The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry."You let him fight?"Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed."And Olympus might be saved."Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years."Dad-"Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works."I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?"Oh . . . yes. Good point."
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"To work for salary is to mortgage your life."
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"Being focused means been diligence and diligence always makes a person rich."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
Experience
"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
Work
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
Time
"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Identity
". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
Behavior
"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
People
"Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."
Reflection
"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
Experience
"Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it."
Art
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