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But right now, most of the companies involved in these supply chains don't have any way of assuring us that nobody had to mortgage their future, nobody had to sacrifice their rights to bring us our favorite brand name product.
You have a custodial duty, a duty of care, to make sure that that product gets from wherever to the store in a way that allows us to consume it, without fear of our safety, or without having to sacrifice our conscience to consume that product."
That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.
We don't talk about the sacrifice.
Of course, there was another kind of sacrifice involving his family that I understood much later.
If this research is successful, it may then reduce the need to research and sacrifice human embryos.
Now it's still in debt, but Chris has managed, through his own sacrifice, to get this film out.
People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice our environment further to produce higher GDP?
And the cost in order to do this is they have to sacrifice Google.
Then he asked, "Why should China sacrifice our growth so that the West can continue to be profligate and stupid?"
But a lot of us aren't going to be required to pay that kind of sacrifice.
I want to be a great parent, and I will not sacrifice them on the altar of great accomplishment."
And when we do, one of the things that can happen is that we sacrifice conversation for mere connection.
Everyone's got a gift inside of us, and in all honesty, the pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential.
If my nation demands that I sacrifice my family, then I will sacrifice my family.
We're not all in the same boat, and that means nobody's willing to sacrifice for the common good.
And we think of this as our system of ethics, but what we don't realize is that this system has a powerful side effect, which is: It gives a really stark, mutually exclusive choice between doing very well for yourself and your family or doing good for the world, to the brightest minds coming out of our best universities, and sends tens of thousands of people who could make a huge difference in the nonprofit sector, marching every year directly into the for-profit sector because they're not willing to make that kind of lifelong economic sacrifice.
Now, there's no way you're going to get a lot of people with $400,000 talent to make a $316,000 sacrifice every year to become the CEO of a hunger charity.
I mean, I'm an economist, but this is ultimately not an economic question, it's a moral question: Are we willing, as Americans, are we as a society still capable of making the political choice to sacrifice now by paying more taxes in order to improve the long-term future of not only our kids, but our community?
You sacrifice now for a return later.
So it's not a kind of sacrifice, quite the reverse.
And my answer was to promise to myself that I would study hard and get the best education in America to honor his sacrifice.
This is real, genuine leather, without the animal sacrifice.
But the sacrifice of buffalo and the ritual display of wealth also exhibits the status of the deceased, and, by extension, the deceased's family.
When I hear that story, I always imagine the folks from the Great Migration rolling over in their graves, because you can imagine that they didn't sacrifice moving from the South to the North to create a better life for their families, only to see their great-grandchildren return to an agrarian lifestyle, especially in a city where they came with little less than a high school education or even a grammar school education and were able to afford the basic elements of the American dream: steady work and a home that they owned.
Over the time of the study, and especially in the past 10 years, there's been a very severe and deepening drought in the Southwestern U.S., and it turns out that the colonies that conserve water, that stay in when it's really hot outside, and thus sacrifice getting as much food as possible, are the ones more likely to have offspring colonies.
You know, in the military, they give medals to people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may gain.
In business, we give bonuses to people who are willing to sacrifice others so that we may gain.
When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.
Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
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