"In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble."

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Starhawk

#Sacrifice Quotes #Self Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.”
“I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.”
“No. Don't you do this to us.”
“Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.”
“That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.”
“I'm a Gucci girl all the way.”
“I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isnâ€™t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.”

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