"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
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"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
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"Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes."
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"It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden"
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"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."
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"No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]"
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"We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks."
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"I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it."
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"One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake."
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"Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?"
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"If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women."
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"If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty."
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"Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake."
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"A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble."
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"Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'"
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"For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you."
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"COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others"
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"Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning."
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"Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!"
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"I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it."
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