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I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the… — James McGreevey
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… — Christopher Dodd
I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway. — Jesse Eisenberg
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical… — Aristotle
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting… — John Hodgman
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an… — Michael Ignatieff
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake. — Arnold J. Toynbee
In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever you many choose… — Richard Moss
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… — Thomas Merton
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished… — David Lloyd George
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them. — Epicurus
Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training. — Jane Haddam
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing… — John Cleese
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand. — Robert Genn
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for… — Bernard of Clairvaux
l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake. — Robert Moses
In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific… — James Henry Breasted
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble… — Criss Jami
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. — Mahatma Gandhi

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