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"I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling."
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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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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."
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