"I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake."
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"O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake."
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"My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time."
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"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."
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"Nothing should be done for spite's sake."
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"For God sakes, this is a woman I was married to for 10 years. We made love. I'd hold her head over the toilet bowl when she threw up."
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"If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down."
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"I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul"
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"Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you."
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"That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.' 'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.' 'I like you, too.' 'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you."
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"There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations."
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"Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake."
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"Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them)."
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"I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony."
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"Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the way to its true end, terminates in a value which does not exist, and thus frustrates all its deepest capacities for happiness and peace."
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"What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it."
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"Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others."
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"When the man is traveling with a man, he says, "Let's stay up late and work on this and get this to be better." When the man's traveling with the woman, for the sake of appearances he doesn't do the work with her. That's a lost opportunity for her to be a success."
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"There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err."
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"It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour."
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