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"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
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"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
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"The great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love."
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"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
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"I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
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"The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying."
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"I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
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"I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
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"They shot one of ours. The lines deepened around his grey eyes. 'I'd waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crew's blood."
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"For him, I had done this-for him I'd gladly wrecked myself and my immortal soul. And now I had an eternity to live with it."
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"We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families."
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"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
History
"The facts are always less than what really happened."
Fact
"A desert is a place without expectation."
Expectation
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Beauty
"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."
People
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
Social Issues
"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."
Fear
"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."
Man
"Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter."
Time
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