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• I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Son, Thinking

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• It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

  Lisa Gardner

  Children, Men, Murder Victims

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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  Dada Vaswani

  Gratitude, Suffering, Criticism

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• I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Way, Tournaments

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• You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

  Leonard Cohen

  Children, Vision, Demon

  Song: Story Of Isaac, Album: Live Songs, 1969

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• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Revenge, Men, Self

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

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• The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Ambition, Honor, Ambitious

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• Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Rights, Justice, Political

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Culture, Coercion

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.72, MIT Press

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• The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Soldier

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.

  Horace Bushnell

  Jesus, Doe, Followers

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.78

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• It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Country, Son, Sake

  "The Generalissimo's son: Chiang Ching-kuo and the revolutions in China and Taiwan". Book by Chiang Kai-shek, p. 59, 2000.

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• For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.

  Lucian

  Men, Thinking, Listening

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.

  Warren Farrell

  Country, Men, Care

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Reality, Careers

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.

  Brad Pitt

  Religious, Thinking, Attention

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13, 1997.

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• Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Great Love, Lovers, Made

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Voice, Joy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

  Cornel West

  Loneliness, Sadness, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

  Narendra Modi

  Philosophy, Civilization, Principles

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Exercise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.

  Sarada Devi

  Omission, Humanity, Suffering

  "Thus Spake the Holy Mother" by Sarada Devi, (pp. 72-73), 1985.

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• The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.

  Steve Kerr

  Couple, Thinking, Keys

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Path, Nations, Serving

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• The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.

  Preston Manning

  Impact, Goes On, Trouble

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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