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• The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

  Earl Blaik

  Fun, Essence, Games

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• All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Names, Knowing

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 180), 1986.

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• War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

  Frederic C. Howe

  War, People, Giving

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• Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a complete human being.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Hands, Important

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• It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Littles, Little Things, Easier

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• Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

  Self, Self Love, Resigned

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• With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the publication. We have no illusions about what great wealth can do and what it cannot do. We believe in the worthwhileness of striving by all worthy means to attain success and to attain wealth. Simply because we are convinced that no amount of money is worth the sacrifice of one's better instincts, of one's self-respect-of one's soul, if you wish-simply because we are convinced that riches not gained legitimately and decently are not worth having.

  B. C. Forbes

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Children, Profound, Suffering

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• The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

  Marion Barry

  Peace, War, Men

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• A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.

  Robert Holden

  Life, Jobs, Planets

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• We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Children, Perfection, Too Much

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• Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Return, Wanted, Knows

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• I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Children, Mean, Generosity

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• Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christ, Crime, Crosses

  John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.26, CUA Press

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• Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

  Richard Whately

  Being True, Expediency

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• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Sleep, Heaven

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• We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of our race, and that, in one word, is SACRIFICE!

  Catharine Beecher

  Race, Law, Has Beens

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.36

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• ... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.

  Catharine Beecher

  School, Self, Ignorant

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• You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

  Bobby Orr

  Motivational, Sports, Work

  Bobby Orr (2013). “Orr: My Story”, p.78, Penguin

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• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Technology, Names

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.

  Sallust

  Art, Prayer, Mistake

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• Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

  Sallust

  Hair, Offering, Body

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• We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them.

  Ole Hallesby

  Selfish, Blessing, Dear Ones

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Roots, Grace, Purpose

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1853). “Parochial sermons”, p.160

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• Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

  Barbara Mertz

  Results, Martyrdom, Gullibility

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