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Sacrifice Quotes
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
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"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it."
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"NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation."
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"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
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"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
37
"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
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"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
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"After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?"
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"Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being."
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"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."
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"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."
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"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
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"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
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"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."
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"Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation."
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"If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out."
17
"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
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"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."
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"That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent."
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"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
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"When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it."
16
"But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend."
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"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."
16
"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
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"Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you."
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"The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent."
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"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
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