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• The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

  Franz Boas

  Passion, Alive, Seeking

  "Race and Democratic Society". Book by Franz Boas. Introduction, 1945.

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• When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth’s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this sacrifice because he seeks to do his will, he does know, most assuredly, that God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor will not seek his face in vain.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Believe, Sacrifice, Men

  Joseph Smith Jr. (2010). “Lectures on Faith”, p.72, Cedar Fort

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• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Not Interested

  Interview with Ken P, www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

  Thomas More

  Law, Safety, Giving

  "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", 1960.

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• It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Goal, Effort

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.42, Random House

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• I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

  Christopher Lasch

  Despise, Clinging, Temperament

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• For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

  Rebecca West

  Country, Soul, Littles

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Advertising, Gin

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• Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

  Simon Raven

  Art, Money, Saving Money

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• People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

  Ridley Scott

  Play, People, Looks

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• For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date we dream of going home to watch television. We would prefer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit. We are almost constitutionally incapable of casual relationships.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Home, Mean

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• Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

  Richard Rorty

  Winning, Encounters, Scripture

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Giving, Want

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• On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Hands, Grace

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• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Arrows, Archery

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• We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Answers, May

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.119, Macmillan

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• For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it… All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Zero, Years

  "What the Duck?" by Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

  William Carey

  Distance, Would Be, Culture

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• A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Giving Up, Men, People

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.44

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• I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Growing Up, People, Trying

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• What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Jesus, Jobs

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• So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jobs, Decision, Waiting

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• Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

  John Herschel

  Class, Ideas, Dancing

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Beautiful, People

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• Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

  Antony Gormley

  Thinking, People, Joy

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