Sake Quotes - Page 40

• Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

  Christopher Dodd

  Spring, Abuse, Secrecy

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• I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

  Lionel Blue

  Heaven, Encounters, Things Change

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• The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  America, Goal, Ungrateful

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• I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

  Lucy Lawless

  Night, Acting, Sitting

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• I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Thinking, Government, Years

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• In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hero, Past, Risk

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• Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Blood, Body, Causes

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• I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

  William Booth

  Soul, Body, Saving

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

  Jacques Derrida

  Education, Play, Waiting

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• You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.

  Chuck D

  Strong, Moving, Sound

  "Chuck D: A 'Hip Hop God' Speaks". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. February 6, 2013.

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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.

  Thomas Merton

  Truth, Intuition, Action

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.49, Sounds True

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• I won't do something just for the sake of working.

  Juliette Binoche

  Implications

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• If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Guy, Trying, Size

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• Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Ideas, Connections, Messages

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• I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

  Michael Biehn

  Saws, Violence, Saw Movie

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• To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

  Etty Hillesum

  Reality, Tasks, Reverse

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life and making it possible for a person to die for their sake. A person without aspirations is like a ship without a rudder or a horse without a bridle. Aspirations give consistent order to life.

  Mas Oyama

  Spiritual, Horse, Order

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• The fastest way to attain courage is to follow the chosen Way and be willing to abandon life itself for the sake of justice.

  Mas Oyama

  Justice, Way, Abandon

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• Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.

  Mas Oyama

  Strong, Self, Training

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• Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

  Mas Oyama

  Greed, Causes, Forget

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• I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Thinking, Guarantees That, Addiction

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• My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and has always been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to hold that as a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is, and it will be their loss.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Beautiful, Sadness, Loss

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• It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the child inside us. We often fear that people won't take us seriously, or that they won't think us qualified enough. For the sake of being accepted, we can forget our source and put on one of the rigid masks of professionalism or conformity that society is continually offering us. The childlike part of us is the part that, like the Fool, simply does and says, without needing to qualify himself or strut his credentials.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Children, Struggle, Thinking

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.50, Penguin

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

  Albert Einstein

  Purpose, Daily Life, My Sympathy

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• A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.

  Plutarch

  Warrior, Lines, Shields

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