"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."

-- Albert Schweitzer

#Sacrifice Quotes #Being Sad Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas”
“To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.”

Source : "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1989.
“I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.”
“I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.”

Source : "The idea is to unravel the onion". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2003.
“A scary but yet beautiful smile”
“I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”

Source : Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)
“Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.”
“Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?”

Source : Max Barry (2004). “Jennifer Government”, p.179, Vintage

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