Sake Quotes
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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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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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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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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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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
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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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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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Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.
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This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
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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.
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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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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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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
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Leaving his country for his country's sake.
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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
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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 swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
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I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
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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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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
