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sacrificed

Meaning

of Sacrifice

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Ernest Renan

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself. George Bernard Shaw

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. Emil Cioran

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. W. Somerset Maugham

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. L. Neil Smith

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. Ayn Rand

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