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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-11-06

A quotation from Cicero

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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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-10-10

A quotation from Orwell

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 Magazine

More info about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/79598/

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-09-29

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. 42

More info about this quote: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-04-22

A quotation from The Bible

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/

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Alive in Christaliveinchristaz
2025-04-21

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.

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-03-14

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, Chicago

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

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Eric Maugendre on collectiveseric@social.coop
2025-03-09

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." duckalignment.academy/avoiding

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krichardkayekrichardkaye
2025-02-18

Taking on the hardest part of today in my . for what is right even when it's not for you. It's hard but there are reasons why we should! and are for everyone! come read and know you're not alone!

aftbook.blog/2025/02/18/im-on-

2025-02-06
Lammergeier Ferektlammergeierferekt
2025-01-26

Spui că faci o arhitectură pentru oameni? Ar fi ipocrit să faci asta fără să incluzi oamenii care fac arhitectura (aviz sacrificioșilor de sine)

Lammergeier Ferektlammergeierferekt
2025-01-25

Companies should cover mental& brain health insurances so that they avoid getting you burned out by any chance.

Oh no, Claire, did you stay after work-hours today?? Please never do that again, so I wont go bankrupt! *said the imaginative boss*

-selfsacrifice

Lammergeier Ferektlammergeierferekt
2025-01-25

At times, when I come across exaggerated or misinterpreted quotes glorifying self-sacrifice or equating strong character with deceit and manipulation, I simply report the post for spreading false information or violating guidelines.

WIST Quotations has moved!WISTquote@zirk.us
2024-11-28

A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:

«
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/bible-nt/28315/

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WIST Quotations has moved!WISTquote@zirk.us
2024-11-01

A quotation from Ingersoll, Robert Green:

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So this idea of doing good to others only for their sake is absurd. You want to do it, not simply for their sake, but for your own; because a perfectly civilized man can never be perfectly happy while there is one unhappy being in this universe.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre

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WIST Quotations has moved!WISTquote@zirk.us
2024-10-24

A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

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In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/carlyle-thomas/72659

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Latest News & Health ArticleHussainiArtist
2024-09-19
2024-08-27

#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.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/

John Griogair Belllibrarian@library.hrmtc.com
2024-07-04

“The Formula of the New Aeon recognizes Horus, the Child crowned and conquering, as God. We are all members of the Body of God, the Sun; and about our System is the Ocean of Space. This formula is then to be based upon these facts. Our ‘Evil’, ‘Error’, ‘Darkness’, ‘Illusion’, whatever one chooses to call it, is simply a phenomenon of accidental and temporary separateness. If you are ‘walking in darkness’, do not try to make the sun rise by self-sacrifice, but wait in confidence for the dawn, and enjoy the pleasures of the night meanwhile.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/07/04/the-formula-of-the-new-aeon-recognizes-horus-the-child-crowned-and-conquering-as-god-we-are-all-members-of-the-body-of-god-the-sun-and-about-our-system-is-the-ocean-of-space-this-formula-is-th/

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