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• A constant tension exists between an individual's interests, personal needs, and skills, and what the organization requires of her. We've all asked ourselves, How much of my own agenda should I sacrifice in order to help the rest of the staff meet the company's goals?

  Pat Heim

  Skills, Organization, Order

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• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If its a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  Rani Mukerji

  Moving, Home, Mediocrity

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• Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Hard Work, Humor

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• Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .

  Aristotle

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now primarily interested in preserving the stability of business, prices, and employment, and are not likely, when the choice is forced on us, deliberately to sacrifice these to outworn dogma, which had its value once, of 3 pounds, 17 shill ings, 10 1/2 pence per ounce. Advocates of the ancient standard do not observe how remote it now is from the spirit and the requirements of the age. A regulated nonmetallic standard has slipped in unnoticed. It exists.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Choices, Age, Gold

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Teacher, Children, Writing

  "The View From Chaos Manor". Jerry Pournelle's blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. April 3, 2006.

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• The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.

  Albert Speer

  War, Fighting, Fire

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• I am proud to be from an ideology. Our ideology is that the Nation is bigger than party. We will live and die for the nation. Our ideology is not about aspiring for posts, it's based of sacrifice.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, India, Politics

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• Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

  Rick Warren

  Song, Love Is, Lust

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Nov 21, 2013

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• That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hero, Enchantment, Difficult

  Lloyd Alexander (2015). “The Black Cauldron 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.173, Macmillan

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• The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Art, Decision, Important

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• Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

  Kim Harrison

  Heart, Fighting, Happy Endings

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• By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

  Augustus

  Moving, Struggle, Self Confidence

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• My thing is just staying positive.  Find that thing you love doing and dedicate yourself to it.  You're going to have to sacrifice a lot of things if you want to achieve the goals you want to achieve.

  Derrick Rose

  Goal, Stay Positive, Want

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• The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Demand, Philippines, Human Life

  Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo (2004). “A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches: Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines”

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• Im benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

  Terri Sewell

  Giving, Trying, Beneficiaries

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• And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

  George Sand

  Mind, Earth, Pleasure

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• 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.

  Orrin Hatch

  Children, Community, Firsts

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• Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

  Atul Gawande

  Risk, Suffering, Remember

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.136, Metropolitan Books

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• We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even

  Thomas Sankara

  Real, People, Limits

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Squares, Tree

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Believe, Struggle

  " Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy : 1919 to the Present" by Stanislao G. Pugliese, (p. 89), 2004.

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• So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Habit, Lifelong, Aim

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.33, Multnomah

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• I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.

  Adrian Peterson

  Winning, Rushing, Yards

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• When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.

  Lucas Neff

  Thinking, People, Parent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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