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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

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