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“Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.”

Art Can Do Successful Sacrifice Effects Essentials Triumph Poetry Is Verses Explicit

Author:Clement Greenberg

“If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.”

Ifs Should Made States Would Be Law Political Social Moral Wise Sacrifice Effects Citizens Holy All Time Political Systems Dissipation

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.”

Ifs World War Sacrifice Effects Judging Defeat France War Of The Worlds Judged World War Ii World War I Readiness

Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very problem his coming might have been expected to address, for history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Problem Might Christian Religion Millions Cases Sacrifice Effects Dangerous Expected Addresses Heroic Might Have Been Messiah

Author:Steve Allen

“I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?”

Persons Action Doubt Sacrifice Effects Serious Devil Convinced Mediums Serving Serving God My Thoughts Words And Actions Thoughts And Words Serious Person Sacrifice To God

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection

“It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.”

May Stills Girl Sacrifice Effects Safety Useless Annoying Examination Consuming Airline Time Consuming Connecticut Wasps Hijacking

Author:Ann Coulter

“Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!”

Knows Soul Earth Spiritual Sun Grace Heard Sacrifice Effects Produce Materials Easier Holy Mass Devotion Marvelous Holy Mass

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“If I were to be super critical, I would say Formula One is too tactical and not strategic enough. And that brings us back to the digital issue: you may have to invest in order to gain - sacrifice some short-term effects in order to make high returns in the future.”

Ifs May Enough Order Term Issues Sacrifice Effects Return Gains Critical Digital Formulas Short Term Strategic Tactical Formula One

Author:Martin Sorrell