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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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• Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

  Mason Cooley

  Style, Comfort, Virtue

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

  Frederic C. Howe

  War, People, Giving

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• Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Grace, Life Happiness

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• Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

  Edward Kennedy

  Political, Hours, Conviction

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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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• Success doesn't come overnight and there's certain things you can't do. I've missed so many weddings, christenings and birthdays, but I know all my family are there behind me, wanting me to do really well and it was worth the sacrifice.

  Jenny Meadows

  My Family, Certain, Wells

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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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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• 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 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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• Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Struggle, Blessing, Order

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Jun 18, 2013

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• I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

  Seneca the Younger

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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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• 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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• I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Religious, War, Land

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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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• Sacrifice money rather than principle.

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Principles

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• Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

  John Kador

  Party, Apology, Behalf

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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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• Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Love

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• God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

  John Stott

  Men, Deserve

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.159, InterVarsity Press

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• All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Blood, Ideas, Humanity

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

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• Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  Ron Paul

  War, Responsibility, Army

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