"Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry."
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"But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity."
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"It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it."
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"We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport."
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"It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things."
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"Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures."
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"The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life."
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"The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake."
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"If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man."
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"No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject."
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"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed."
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"Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State."
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"She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness."
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"TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray."
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"That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake."
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"If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake."
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"The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake."
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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t."
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"They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend."
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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
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