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"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."
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"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."

"Employment sells out the future life."

"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."

"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."

"Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."

"Life demands death to self."
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"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
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