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• I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Thinking, Being Different, Gang

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• Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Beauty, Order, Joy

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• For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Priorities, Positive Energy

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• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Racism, People

  The New York Times, January 3, 1985.

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• People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

  Len Wein

  Character, People, Lenses

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Thinking, Vulgar

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

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• Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Buying, Six, One Thing

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• I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

  Joss Whedon

  Movie, Thinking, Decision

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• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Ideas, World

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• Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

  will.i.am

  World, Today, Selling

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• There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

  Mao Zedong

  Art, Independent, Class

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.151, Lulu.com

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• If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Appreciate, Done

  "Everyday wisdom" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2008.

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• I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

  Helen McCrory

  Ambition, Lucky, Needs

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

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• It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

  Colm Toibin

  Country, Reading, Thinking

  "History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives" by Colm Toibin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Sweet, School

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

  Jasper Fforde

  Philosophy, Cancer, Growth

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Artist, Men, Creating

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!

  Ken Kesey

  Jesus, Mean, Kids

  "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Book by Ken Kesey, 1962.

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• Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Self, Order

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• She cried, "Laura," up the garden, "Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me; For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men.

  Christina Rossetti

  Kissing, Men, Garden

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Goblin Market - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Defense, Reactions, Ready

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.78, Beacon Press

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• To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being.

  Thomas Merton

  Joy, Intuition, Levels

  "Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation".

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• Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life." Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection." "I'm going to name my firstborn child after you." Katsa laughed at that. "For the child's sake, wait for a girl. Or even better, wait until all your children are older and give my name to whichever is the most troublesome and obstinate." Skye burst into laughter and hugged her, and Katsa returned his embrace. And realized that quite without her intending it, her guarded heart had made another friend.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Laughter, Children

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.433, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Please Me, Walks, Please

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Essays”, p.257

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