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They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

We call them leaders because they will choose to sacrifice so that their people may be safe and protected and so their people may gain, and when we do, the natural response is that our people will sacrifice for us.

They sacrifice material comforts in exchange for the space and the time to explore a creative interior, to dream, to read, to work on music, art and writing.

So this raises the question: Would you sacrifice thousands of lives to save your little finger?

So I tell them that growing up, as a kid in a Catholic family in New Orleans, during Lent I was always taught that the most meaningful thing one could do was to give something up, sacrifice something you typically indulge in to prove to God you understand his sanctity.

I figured the most valuable thing I could sacrifice was my own voice, but it was like I hadn't realized that I had given that up a long time ago.

The question is whether you're willing to make a personal sacrifice to change it.

But movements today have to move beyond participation at great scale very fast and figure out how to think together collectively, develop strong policy proposals, create consensus, figure out the political steps and relate them to leverage, because all these good intentions and bravery and sacrifice by itself are not going to be enough.

Or a virgin for a sacrifice?

It is to take a risk, because you sacrifice the ultimate protection granted by objectively measurable individual performance.

Another reason why I did that was because I had been asking the international community that in order to deal with climate change, in order to fight climate change, there has got to be sacrifice, there has got to be commitment.

So in asking the international community to make a sacrifice, I thought we ourselves need to make that sacrifice.

And so we made the sacrifice.

To be clear, I don't hold anything against the Silver Spoon; getting into and graduating from an elite university takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice.

So, a gene that makes an animal altruistically sacrifice itself to help the survival and future reproduction of its siblings or cousins, can become more widespread than one that is solely concerned with self-preservation.

He's making a sacrifice and a covenant with God.

This figure, Jonah, who spent three days in the belly of the whale, for the Christians, is the symbol of the renewal of humanity through Jesus' sacrifice, but for the multitudes of visitors to that museum from all faiths who visit there every day, he is the moment the distant past encounters and meets immediate reality.

Believing in something should not come at the cost of your family and friends, and if someone tells you to sacrifice your relationships or morality for the greater good, they're most likely exploiting you for their own.

For my second example, I want to bring it back to veterans for a second, and what we are doing to build them a VA that is worthy of their service and their sacrifice.

So next we talked on the phone, and one of the first things she said to me was that she couldn't possibly imagine how we felt, and that Thomas had given the ultimate sacrifice, and that she seemed to feel indebted to us.

So every two weeks for two years on payday he stood in front of his employees and he asked them to sacrifice their salaries, and it worked.

Which brings us to soap opera lesson two: sacrifice your ego and drop the superiority complex.

So sacrifice your desire to be right or safe all the time.

I had to be vulnerable like Stephanie and sacrifice my ego.

When she asks you of this year, your daughter, whether your offspring or heir to your triumph, from her comforted side of history teetering towards woman, she will wonder and ask voraciously, though she cannot fathom your sacrifice, she will hold your estimation of it holy, curiously probing, "Where were you?

And lots and lots of that little bit down there, sacrifice.

Do I tell her about our bodies, how they are 60 percent water, but we still burn like driftwood, making fuel of our sacrifice?

And the metaphor is clear: you go into the mountain as an individual, but through exhaustion, through sacrifice, you emerge as a community that has once again reaffirmed its sense of place in the planet.

Do you sacrifice one person to save five?

And in one virtual reality study, people were more willing to sacrifice men than women.

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