"I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us."
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"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors."
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"Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women."
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"Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views."
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"Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work."
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"The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires."
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"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."
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"Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better."
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"It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide."
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"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."
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"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."
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"Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or life itself to lie wi' you, even though ye'd left me?"
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"I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."
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"If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'"
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"Don't sacrifice what you wish for most for what you wish for now"
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"Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of."
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"Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress."
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"The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism."
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"How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?"
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"People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices."
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