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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. - Nadine Gordi

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. – Nadine Gordimer

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. – Nadine Gordimer

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. – Elder Cloward

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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. – Paul Klee

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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation — the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. – David Lloyd George

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. – Max Beerbohm

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

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