The motto above the lintel of the main entrance was in the raised script of the prayer language: My life for a thousand. She remembered swearing an oath with that at its core: My life for yours, for ours, for Nasheen. My life for a thousand.
I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis the same for love as war.
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Laura Frantz
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.
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Christopher Hitchens
Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a separate creature. Some were white hogs, some were black; some...
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Upton Sinclair
It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.
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Jodi Picoult
Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Ayn Rand
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On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories like this that help us empathize with monstrous men. “Yes, these men are flawed, but they are not as evil as this man.”...
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