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«The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it - to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it.»
«It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him»
Author: John Barth
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martyr
«It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one»
«Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.»
«It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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cause of death, martyr, martyred
«And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; / I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.»
«And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: / And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.»
«Martyr: They stood before the altar and supplied - The fire themselves in which their fat was fried»
«Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
(Editor, Essayist, Novelist)
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burned at, burned at the stake, burning at the stake, martyr, stake
«Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr»
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