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• Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Jesus, Tombstone

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• When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

  John Howard Griffin

  Justice, People, Minorities

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• The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

  David Walker

  Mother, Father, Grateful

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• And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.

  Dennis Miller

  Father, Coffee, Breakfast

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• Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.

  Francis Wayland Parker

  Children, Educational, School

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• The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research (1997). “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophy, Educational

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

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• Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Educational, Philosophy, Believe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I implored God, for the sake of all these Holy Masses, to have mercy on the world and especially on poor sinners who were dying at that moment. At the same instant, I received an interior answer from God that a thousand souls had received grace through the prayerful mediation I had offered to God. We do not know the number of souls that is ours to save through our prayers and sacrifices; therefore, let us always pray for sinners.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Numbers

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• For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greek, Historical, Disregard

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• Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Animal

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• I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

  Kevin Rudd

  Ambition, Differences, Long

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• In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9337, Aeterna Press

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• As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Garden, Poppies

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Accomplishment, Diversity, Tables

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• I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Art, Reality

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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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 sake are their own justification.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Done, Accusation

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• 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 or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

  Gelett Burgess

  Blood, Games, Play

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• 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 better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Apples, Adam

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Talking, People, Opinion

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.38

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• 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

  Fun, Creating Things, People

  "Comedian Maria Bamford on her family" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 17, 2011.

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• 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 creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Creativity, Responsibility, Self

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jan 25, 2013

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• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Friendship, Foundation, Ifs

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• Neither love me for
  Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
  A creature might forget to weep, who bore
  Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
  But love me for love's sake, that evermore
  Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Long, Comfort

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.144

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