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• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  Daniel Schorr

  Trying, Needed, Audience

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• Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Creator

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• Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Love Is, Punishment

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• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, Kwanzaa, True Joy

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Wedding Poetry, Ifs

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 14.

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• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Relationship, Bad Ass

  Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)

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• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Being Yourself, Moving Forward, Inspiration

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  Charles Lamb

  Smoking, Tobacco, Dies

  'A Farewell to Tobacco' l. 122

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• To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Art, Men, Important

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). “The Sign of the Four”, p.87, Dramatic Publishing

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• There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

  Elizabeth I

  Country, Anxious, Monarchy

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• Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Practice, Discipline

  "Epictetus: Discourses and Enchiridion".

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• The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

  David Hockney

  Cheating, Art, Moments

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• I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

  John Keats

  Love, Believe, Valentine's Day

  John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.313, Harvard University Press

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• I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Ego

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• Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

  George Sand

  Beautiful, Art, Phrases

  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, 1872

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• I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

  Fred Savage

  Confidence, Thinking, Self

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

  Tom Scholz

  People, Growth, Good Things

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• I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

  Emma Lazarus

  Writing

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• People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

  Jeremy Northam

  Children, Kids, People

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• There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.

  Douglas Adams

  Sorry, Mean, Light

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1)". Book by Douglas Adams (Chapter 3), October 12, 1979.

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• In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

  William James

  War, Eye, May

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1281, Library of America

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• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Mark, Historian

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• We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

  Henry Ford

  Way, Failing, Making Changes

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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