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• Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. — Christopher Hitchens
• A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of… — Victor Hugo
• In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly… — Michael Faraday
• The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into… — L. Ron Hubbard
• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
• A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes… — George F. Richards
• The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more… — Andre Gide
• There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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