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Quote by Nadine Gordimer
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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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power
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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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Heaven
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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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Speech (freedom of)
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Other Quotes from
Sacrifice
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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sacrifice

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Sacrifice

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. – Georges Bataille

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Sacrifice

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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Sacrifice

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I think interviews can be fine. Its just theres this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context. – Nicholas Hoult

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. – Charles de Montesquieu

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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. – Simone Weil

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