"Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake."
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"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter."
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"I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?"
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"Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love."
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"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."
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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."
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"For goodness sake, look at those cakes."
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"Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?"
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"This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . ."
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"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love."
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"Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine."
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"This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax."
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"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."
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"Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty."
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"There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom."
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"It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things."
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"She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake."
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"I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative."
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"He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured."
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