Sake Quotes
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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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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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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 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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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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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
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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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Leaving his country for his country's sake.
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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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...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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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 know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
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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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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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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
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Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
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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've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.
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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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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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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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Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
