The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
– Ernest Renan
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- In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- …I’m not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can’t move the world – let alone your heart.. – John Geddes
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- Let us express our deepest gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives to give us freedom. Wish you all a very joyful Independence Day! – Debasish Mridha
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- ..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all. – Ayn Rand
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- He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped. – Shauna Niequist
- Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation. – Richard Gwynn
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- Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question. – Kristin Cashore
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- Saul’s vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. – Joe Haldeman
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