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sacrifices
«The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.»
Author: Hector Hugh Munro
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sacrifices
«Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort»
Author: Humphrey Davy
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Duty,
Kindness,
Life,
Obligation
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comfort, duties, habitually, kindnesses, made-up, obligations, preserve, sacrifices, secure, smiles
«One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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aspect, corporation, Corporations, disappearance, disappearances, employees, enormous, enterprise, free enterprise, impersonal, lands, Land of the Free, rapid, rapid growth, sacrifices, shopkeeper, shopkeepers, stifle, submerged, submergence, transformation, tremendous
«I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.»
«The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.»
«Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.»
Author: Bible
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altar, bullocks, burnt, burnt offering, offering, righteousness, sacrifices
«The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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accomplices, account, austere, heartless, injustice, innocent, performance, sacrifices, self-discipline, self-disciplined, take account, The Accomplice, The God, the self, victims, vigilance
«The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Human sacrifice, Parties, podium, podiums, prime, prime time, sacrifices
«Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Superstition
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excluding, Human sacrifice, imaginary, imaginary being, religious belief, religious beliefs, sacrifices, state of mind