Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Sacrifice
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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
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Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
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If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.
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We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
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