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• The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

  Chris Abani

  Community, Wish, Together

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Stars, Numbers, Laughing

  "Jake Johnson: It's Legal to Smoke Bad Weed". Interview With Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2014.

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• Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

  Jeffrey Pierce

  Giving Up, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

  Sandra Bernhard

  People, Comfort, Morality

  Interview with Roseanne Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2, 2012.

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• The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

  William James

  Men, Doctors, Temptation

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• Be who you are. But be the very best communicator you can possibly be. To do that you must be willing to sacrifice what's comfortable-what has become part of your style-for the sake of what is effective.

  Andy Stanley

  Be Who You Are, Style, Sake

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• Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Pain, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Sleep, School, Doctors

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• Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Government, Order

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• Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

  Stewart Udall

  Running, Moving, Technology

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• To get into the consumer's mind, you have to sacrifice. You have to reduce the essence of your brand to a single thought or attribute. An attribute that nobody else already owns in your category.

  Al Ries

  Essence, Mind, Attributes

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• Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.

  Eric Metaxas

  Mistake, Zealous, Purpose

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• Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Sports, School, Persistence

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• Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Heart, Opera, Spirit

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• So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.

  Robert Pierce

  Suffering, Littles

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• In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

  David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

  Love Is, Men, Pleasure

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• Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed - whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life - you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do.

  Ronda Rousey

  Sports, Jobs, Hard Work

  Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no reward without sacrifice.

  Carlson Gracie

  Rewards, Without Sacrifice

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• After I was released, people used to keep asking me, 'what's it like to be free? And it was very difficult for me to answer. I'd always felt free. As far as my state of mind was concerned, I didn't feel any different...People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Choices, Mind

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• A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.

  Peter Shepherd

  Integrity, People, Unnecessary

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• Not surprisingly, as the pioneer theme is presented, each goes back in memory to his or her own family line. There are usually examples to identify and which fit the definition of a pioneer: "one who goes before, showing others the way to follow." Some, if not all, made great sacrifices to leave behind comfort and ease and respond to that clarion call of their newly found faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Memories, Lines, Definitions

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• Worthy partakers of the sacrament are in harmony with the Lord and put themselves under covenant with Him to always remember His sacrifice for the sins of the world, to take upon them the name of Christ, and to always remember Him, and to keep His commandments. The Savior covenants that we who do so shall have His Spirit to be with us and that, if faithful to the end, we may inherit eternal life.

  David B. Haight

  Names, Faithful, World

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• Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22). This is the decision we made in our premortal lives. Now we must make it again here in mortality, every day, in every situation by taking the Savior's name upon us, remembering His atoning sacrifice, and keeping His commandments. This we covenanted to do when we were baptized, and we have the opportunity to renew those covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament.

  Robert D. Hales

  Jesus, Mean, Opportunity

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• Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

  Isaac Watts

  Blood, Christ, Lord

  Isaac Watts (1867). “The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns”, p.95

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• I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Country, Perseverance

  "Pope laments 'gangrene' of corruption plaguing 'all peoples of the world'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2015.

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