#selfsacrifice — Public Fediverse posts
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
(Spurious)More about this misquote: wist.info/voltaire/34462/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #defense #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #integrity #principle #selfsacrifice
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
To me, the democratic system represents man’s best and brightest hope of self-fulfillment, of a life rich in promise and free from fear; the one hope, perhaps, for the complete development of the whole man. But I know, and learn more clearly every day, that we cannot keep our system strong and free by neglect, by taking it for granted, by giving it our second-best attention. We must be prepared, like the suitor in The Merchant of Venice — and, I might point out, the successful suitor — to give and hazard all we have.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Essay (1961-04), “What Has Happened to the American Dream?” Atlantic MonthlyMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/28…
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
To me, the democratic system represents man’s best and brightest hope of self-fulfillment, of a life rich in promise and free from fear; the one hope, perhaps, for the complete development of the whole man. But I know, and learn more clearly every day, that we cannot keep our system strong and free by neglect, by taking it for granted, by giving it our second-best attention. We must be prepared, like the suitor in The Merchant of Venice — and, I might point out, the successful suitor — to give and hazard all we have.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Essay (1961-04), “What Has Happened to the American Dream?” Atlantic MonthlyMore about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/28…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #civicpride #civicvirtue #democracy #engagement #indifference #nationalstrength #neglect #representativegovernment #republic #selfsacrifice #vigilance #risk
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There really are things you can do to keep your body looking healthy and youthful for years to come. But before I discuss these things, I want you to answer the following questions honestly: Are you willing to make the hard sacrifices needed to be really healthy? Are you willing to commit yourself totally to a program of regular exercise, close medical supervision, and the elimination of all caffeine, alcohol, and rich foods, to be replaced by a strict diet of nutrition-rich, kelp-like plant growths so unappetizing that they will make you actually lust for tofu?
Or are you the kind of shallow, irresponsible person who wants a purely cosmetic change, a “quick and dirty” surface gloss that may make you look young and healthy, but actually has no long-term value? Me too.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82872/
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There really are things you can do to keep your body looking healthy and youthful for years to come. But before I discuss these things, I want you to answer the following questions honestly: Are you willing to make the hard sacrifices needed to be really healthy? Are you willing to commit yourself totally to a program of regular exercise, close medical supervision, and the elimination of all caffeine, alcohol, and rich foods, to be replaced by a strict diet of nutrition-rich, kelp-like plant growths so unappetizing that they will make you actually lust for tofu?
Or are you the kind of shallow, irresponsible person who wants a purely cosmetic change, a “quick and dirty” surface gloss that may make you look young and healthy, but actually has no long-term value? Me too.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #appearance #cosmetic #diet #exercise #hardwork #health #nutrition #physicalfitness #selfimprovement #selfsacrifice #sloth
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🚨OMG, #OpenAI, are you seriously trying to out-noble yourselves with this ancient self-sacrifice clause? 🥴 Your 2018 idealism is so last decade, and let's face it, no one's racing to put themselves out of business! 😂 #VirtueSignalingFAIL
https://mlumiste.com/general/openai-charter/ #SelfSacrifice #VirtueSignaling #Critique #TechNews #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨OMG, #OpenAI, are you seriously trying to out-noble yourselves with this ancient self-sacrifice clause? 🥴 Your 2018 idealism is so last decade, and let's face it, no one's racing to put themselves out of business! 😂 #VirtueSignalingFAIL
https://mlumiste.com/general/openai-charter/ #SelfSacrifice #VirtueSignaling #Critique #TechNews #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Political virtue is a renunciation of oneself, which is always a very painful thing. One can define this virtue as love of the laws and the homeland. This love, requiring a continuous preference of the public interest over one’s own, produces all the individual virtues; they are only that preference.
[La vertu politique est un renoncement à soi-même, qui est toujours une chose très-pénible. On peut définir cette vertu, l’amour des loix & de la patrie. Cet amour, demandant une préférence continuelle de l’intérêt public au sien propre, donne toutes les vertus particulieres: elles ne sont que cette préférence.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 5 (4.5) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82465/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Montesquieu #homeland #lawabiding #lawfulness #patriotism #politicalvirtue #privateinterest #publicinterest #renunciation #selfsacrifice #virtue
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Every Man must seriously set himself to root out his Passions, Prejudices and Attachments, and to get the better of his private Interest. The only reputable Principle and Doctrine must be that all Things must give Way to the public.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-16) to Mercy Otis WarrenMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/81374/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #commongood #commoninterest #community #democracy #mutuality #privateinterest #publicgood #publicservice #republic #selfcontrol #selfdenial #selfinterest #selfmastery #selfpolicing #selfrespect #selfsacrifice #society
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Every Man must seriously set himself to root out his Passions, Prejudices and Attachments, and to get the better of his private Interest. The only reputable Principle and Doctrine must be that all Things must give Way to the public.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-04-16) to Mercy Otis WarrenMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/81374/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #commongood #commoninterest #community #democracy #mutuality #privateinterest #publicgood #publicservice #republic #selfcontrol #selfdenial #selfinterest #selfmastery #selfpolicing #selfrespect #selfsacrifice #society
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So glorious is the recovery of liberty that in regaining liberty we must not shrink even from death.
[Ita praeclara est recuperatio libertatis ut ne mors quidem sit in repetenda libertate fugienda.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 10, ch. 9 / sec. 20 (10.9/10.20) (43-02 BC) [tr. Ker (Loeb) (1926)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. It has to demand faultless discipline and self-sacrifice, it must expect its subjects to work hard, pay their taxes, and be faithful to their wives, it must assume that men think it glorious to die on the battlefield and women want to wear themselves out with child-bearing. The whole of what one may call official literature is founded on such assumptions.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-09), “The Art of Donald McGill,” Horizon MagazineMore info about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/79598/
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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Be polite and generous, but don’t undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1861-04), “The Professor’s Story [Elsie Venner],” ch. 32, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 42More info about this quote: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oliverwendellholmessr #generosity #happiness #politeness #selfappreciation #selfsacrifice #selfvalue #selfworth #usefulness
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And when you fast, do not put on a sad face as the hypocrites do. They neglect their appearance so that everyone will see that they are fasting. I assure you, they have already been paid in full. When you go without food, wash your face and comb your hair, so that others cannot know that you are fasting — only your Father, who is unseen, will know. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.
[Ὅταν δὲ νηστεύητε, μὴ γίνεσθε ὡς οἱ ὑποκριταὶ σκυθρωποί, ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ὅπως φανῶσιν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις νηστεύοντες· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπέχουσιν τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν. σὺ δὲ νηστεύων ἄλειψαί σου τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ τὸ πρόσωπόν σου νίψαι, ὅπως μὴ φανῇς τοῖς ἀνθρώποις νηστεύων ἀλλὰ τῷ πατρί σου τῷ ἐν τῷ κρυφαίῳ· καὶ ὁ πατήρ σου ὁ βλέπων ἐν τῷ κρυφαίῳ ἀποδώσει σοι.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 6: 16-18 (Jesus) [GNT (1966)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/bible-nt/76296/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #jesus #hypocrisy #admiration #facade #fasting #selfsacrifice #sympathy
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Explore the profound message of humility and self-sacrifice as we delve into Jesus' teachings on eternal life. Discover how dying to yourself leads to a new life and bearing fruit for others. Understand the passionate love that unlocks true eternal life and shifts the focus from ourselves. #Humility #SelfSacrifice #EternalLife #JesusTeachings #FaithJourney #SpiritualGrowth #ChristianLiving #DieToSelf #NewLife #PassionateLove
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their creeds. In spite of church and dogma, there have been millions and millions of men and women true to the loftiest and most generous promptings of the human heart. They have been true to their convictions, and, with a self-denial and fortitude excelled by none, have labored and suffered for the salvation of men. Imbued with the spirit of self-sacrifice, believing that by personal effort they could rescue at least a few souls from the infinite shadow of hell, they have cheerfully endured every hardship and scorned every danger.
And yet, notwithstanding all this, they believed that honest error was a crime. They knew that the Bible so declared, and they believed that all unbelievers would be eternally lost. They believed that religion was of God, and all heresy of the devil. They killed heretics in defense of their own souls and the souls of their children. They killed them because, according to their idea, they were the enemies of God, and because the Bible teaches that the blood of the unbeliever is a most acceptable sacrifice to heaven.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, ChicagoSourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
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Say you have an opportunity to do whatever it takes to get something done.
Or you are forced on a dramatic shipping deadline."Avoiding hero work not only helps keep your current contributors healthier, but it makes your community a more welcoming place for new contributors." https://duckalignment.academy/avoiding-hero-work-pays-off-in-the-long-run/
#onBoarding #deadlines #delays #workCollectives #selfSacrifice #heroMode #teamWork #work #workCulture #heroes #heroCulture #workPlace #community #unitary #delivery #targets
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Say you have an opportunity to do whatever it takes to get something done.
Or you are forced on a dramatic shipping deadline."Avoiding hero work not only helps keep your current contributors healthier, but it makes your community a more welcoming place for new contributors." https://duckalignment.academy/avoiding-hero-work-pays-off-in-the-long-run/
#onBoarding #deadlines #delays #workCollectives #selfSacrifice #heroMode #teamWork #work #workCulture #heroes #heroCulture #workPlace #community #unitary #delivery #targets
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#unexplained #strange #strangebuttrue #altruism #weird #love #kindness #selfsacrifice #georgeprice #theory #evolution #genetics #academic
The incredible true story of George Price, the academic who attempted to prove love was little more than a biological process he could describe in an equation.
It convinced many and made him famous, then he sacrificed everything to discredit his own theory.
The “Unexplained” podcasts by Richard MacLean Smith are well worth a listen.
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Review: Agriculture Tap Into the Esoteric and the Importance of Community on Living Is Easy/The Circle Chant
Embrace the brutality of life's cyclical nature.#agriculture #buddhism #esoteric #livingiseasy #thecirclechant #theflenser #communityconnection #selfsacrifice #blackmetal #experimentation
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Review: Agriculture Tap Into the Esoteric and the Importance of Community on Living Is Easy/The Circle Chant
Embrace the brutality of life's cyclical nature.#agriculture #buddhism #esoteric #livingiseasy #thecirclechant #theflenser #communityconnection #selfsacrifice #blackmetal #experimentation
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@bookstodon The best example of self-sacrifice is Janusz Korczak. Here's an excerpt from the book The Marvel of Martyrdom:
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@bookstodon The best example of self-sacrifice is Janusz Korczak. Here's an excerpt from the book The Marvel of Martyrdom:
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The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in a Selfish World by Sophia Moskalenko & Clark McCauley
The Marvel of Martyrdom takes a broad perspective on self-sacrifice and martyrdom, bringing together religion, popular culture, history, psychology and mythology. Stories of individuals both famous (Gandhi) and obscure (Rodrigo Rosenberg) intertwine with research on altruism, happiness, and radicalization to terrorism.
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The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in a Selfish World by Sophia Moskalenko & Clark McCauley
The Marvel of Martyrdom takes a broad perspective on self-sacrifice and martyrdom, bringing together religion, popular culture, history, psychology and mythology. Stories of individuals both famous (Gandhi) and obscure (Rodrigo Rosenberg) intertwine with research on altruism, happiness, and radicalization to terrorism.
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During my daily meditation trip to the Himalayas, I instructed my pilot to brainstorm lowering my carbon footprint.
"Maybe less napalm detours over the Amazon?"
"And set fire to family tradition? I certainly don't pay you to think."
"I guess not."
"Yes, I do pay you too much. I'll have my accountant lower your salary to the bare minimum necessary for food. I'm a socially minded billionaire and I believe in doing my part."
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During my daily meditation trip to the Himalayas, I instructed my pilot to brainstorm lowering my carbon footprint.
"Maybe less napalm detours over the Amazon?"
"And set fire to family tradition? I certainly don't pay you to think."
"I guess not."
"Yes, I do pay you too much. I'll have my accountant lower your salary to the bare minimum necessary for food. I'm a socially minded billionaire and I believe in doing my part."