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Quote:The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.[Dave Barry]

Quote:When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.[Edmund Burke]

Quote:If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.[Katherine Hepburn]

Quote:Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.[Vince Lombardi]

Quote:I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.[Mahatma Gandhi]

Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Quote:If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. [Epictetus]



Definitions of: sacrifice

Definition: The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

Definition: Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.

Definition: Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.

Definition: A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Definition: To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

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