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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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He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. – James Allen

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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. – Johann von Goethe

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. Its a spiritual dissipation. – Margaret Deland

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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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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken

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