Sake Quotes
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I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
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He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.
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The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
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Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.
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I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
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Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.
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Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite
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I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
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I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!
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Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.
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I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
