"The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!"
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"Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique."
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"Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
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"Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake."
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"Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty."
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"Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake."
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"The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore."
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"It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career."
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"The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery."
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"I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner."
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"Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing."
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"The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes."
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"Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way."
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"Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us."
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"Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake."
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"That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only."
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"We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours."
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"We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake."
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"There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake."
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"No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it."
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