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Sacrifice Quotes
"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."
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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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"They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice."
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"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."
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"That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth."
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"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
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"Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers."
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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."
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"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
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"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom."
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"Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces."
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul, and its flame is kept alive by the sacrifices of the brave."
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"Employment sells out the essence of life."
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"A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave 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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"Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves."
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"Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all."
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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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"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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"Self-denial is the first quality of love."
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"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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"Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us."
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"The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this."
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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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"Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice."
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"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
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"The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives."
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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
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"A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused."
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"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."
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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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"In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain."
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"I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains."
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