"The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition."
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"If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical."
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"Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac.""
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"The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history."
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"I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai."
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"It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity - or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you're talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton."
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"Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top."
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"Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?"
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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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"My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive-a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a family that has extended now into grandchildren who adore her; a certainty in her own strength. Maybe some things were sacrificed, and my dad made his sacrifices, too-but who amongst us lives without sacrifice?"
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"... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life."
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"Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure."
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"It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it."
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"Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy."
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"Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile."
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"But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer"
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"To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity."
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"A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence."
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"Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety."
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"The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure to suffering or productivity to work or gratification to sacrifice or any of that stuff, which, you know, a couple generations ago, to say that kind of stuff would have made you, you know, a freak - a freak and an Epicurean - and now seems to be so much - simply an unquestioned assumption of the culture that we don't really even talk about it anymore."
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