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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."
103
"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."
91
"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."
73
"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?"
53
"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
52
"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."
45
"But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend."
41
"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."
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"Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being."
41
"A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities."
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"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
37
"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
36
"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice."
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"When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it."
35
"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."
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"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
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"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."
34
"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
34
"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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"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."
33
"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
32
"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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"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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"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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"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."
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