"Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money."
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"The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause."
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"All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient."
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"If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry."
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"...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake."
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"I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see."
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"So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children."
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"For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!"
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"Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved."
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"Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake."
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"Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace."
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"For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself."
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"As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc."
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"Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification."
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"To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason."
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"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
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"Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence."
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"It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake."
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"For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done."
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"For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change."
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