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Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it ...

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Richard BransonReach for the Skies: Ballooning

I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I'v...

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The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate...

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When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the proces...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records befor...

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Salman RushdieThe Enchantress of Florence

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there ...

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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

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Santiago Ramón y CajalAdvice for a Young Investigator

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living bein...

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NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is ...

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All true love and all sacrifice arein their essence Nature’s contradiction of the primary egoism andi...

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And then I carefully sealed away my heart...

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer...

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Søren KierkegaardProvocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immorta...

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism tha...

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What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value...

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ...

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And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what w...

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She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, i...

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Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for ...

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My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice ...

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I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facin...

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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done f...

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...

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The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was...

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It is fathomless, since it is God. One flings into that well the labor of one's whole life, one flin...

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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without fe...

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France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birt...

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I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even...

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When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnip...

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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...

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Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifi...

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...And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses the throatas for song: the inheritanceof the ones, alive o...

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Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, mi...

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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the supp...

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And then came a damp, cold night in Flanders, through which we marched in silence, and when the day ...

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Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offer...

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When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as ...

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the k...

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It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survi...

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The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.Now, with the new feeling t...

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This story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. There are people...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down o...

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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience o...

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I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

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Ayn RandAtlas Shrugged

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

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Ayn RandAtlas Shrugged

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to ...

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You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed...

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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

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Ayn RandThe Fountainhead

Let’s stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His hon...

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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice th...

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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself ...

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Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important a...

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My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.

My life to yours. My breath become yours.

Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes...

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You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with ...

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Raphael's hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. "I h...

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Jace: Herondale, on the other hand, is melodic. Dulcet, one might say. Think of the sound of 'Clary ...

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There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable...

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God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be...

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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

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For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded ...

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I g...

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For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for...

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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent...

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Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?"...

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Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

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Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely t...

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Christopher HitchensThe Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins o...

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She had been wrong in thinking Christ had been called up against his will to fight in a war. He didn...

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In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and t...

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And when you love people, you hate the fact that they’re being treated unfairly. You tell the truth....

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, ...

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Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately....

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I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform act...

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Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...

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