#sacrifice

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it. ↗

— Emeli Sande

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You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice. ↗

— Shakira

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

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The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. ↗

— Julius Streicher

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It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. ↗

— King Albert II

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After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

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