Sake Quotes
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
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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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There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
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Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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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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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
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For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
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We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
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Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
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Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?
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I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.
