"We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other."
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"Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters."
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"The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes."
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"What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it."
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"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us."
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"It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us."
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"The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!"
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"Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden."
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"A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line."
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"Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both"
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"We are here for the sake of others"
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"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other."
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"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
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". . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's."
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"The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself."
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"The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet."
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"Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them"
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"Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake."
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"Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake."
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". . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."
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