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A sacrifice is a (usually deliberate) bid of an unmakeable contract in contract bridge in the hope that the penalty will be smaller than the value of an opponents' contract. In rubber bridge, a sacrifice can be also made in an attempt to prevent the opponents scoring a game, hoping that the cards in subsequent deals will turn the side and provide compensation. In bridge scoring, making a game yields approximately 620 points vulnerable and 420 points non-vulnerable. As the opponents will often... full article at wikipedia

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
The pig and the chicken were on their way to breakfast, trying to decide what to have. When chicken said, Let's have ham and eggs. The pig then replied, That's fine for you, it's a small donation on your part, but it's a total sacrifice for me.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
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