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The Seven Deadly Sins are wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi


The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. - Arthur Schopenhauer


The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi


The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi


Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of life. - George Bernard Shaw


The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook, it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy


There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. - Aldous Huxley


A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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