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A Just Cause is a specific vision of a future state that does not yet exist: a future state so appealing that people are willing to make sacrifices in order to help advance toward that vision.
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033 |
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Courage is risk. It is sacrifice…
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Even if this kills us, even if we’re not around to enjoy the fruits of our sacrifice because it got us fired or killed or worse, it’s still worth it. Our memory lives on in the mind of the witnesses.
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Sometimes our lance must be broken against the shield. Sometimes we must be willing to go all the way. We must be willing to lose the job, lose the client, lose our good standing, break from our friends, make the sacrifice.
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The difficult choices we must make in the future may be impossible to make unless our society develops a common set of priorities, or shared set of values, that will justify the sacrifices that wise choices often entail in the short run.
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The creative capacities of generations of people have been sacrificed needlessly to an academic illusion.
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…people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others.
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237 |
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On our path to achieving a goal we inevitably encounter obstacles. Some of the more familiar ones, aside from other people, are sacrifices of time, money, power, love, resources, and inner strength.
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If you ‘have it all’ but sacrifice yourself, what do you really have in the end? It really is like they say on planes: Put your own oxygen mask on first, then help other people.
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Their motive [of talking about a company as a family] is rather more likely to be a unidirectional form of sacrifice: yours.
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