Sake Quotes

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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own… — George Santayana
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords… — Gelett Burgess
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely… — Mark Twain
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking. — William Hazlitt
Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window. — Maria Bamford
We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. — Charlotte Bronte
Work for your own soul's sake. — Edgar Lee Masters
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled… — George Whitefield
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and… — John of the Cross
Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs.… — Woodrow Wilson
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting… — Dwight Schultz
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake. — Paul Klee
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. — Charles Churchill
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity -… — Mairead Corrigan
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams

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