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Sacrifice Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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."
"They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice."
"Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation."
"We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families."
"Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same."
"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
"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."
"Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice."
"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."
"When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it."
"But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend."
"That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth."
"We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for."
"The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
"To work for salary is to mortgage your life."
"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
"The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives."
"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."
"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
"A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused."
"The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited."
"This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice."
"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."
"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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