Sake Quotes - Page 33

• Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

  Kenny Smith

  Needs, Clarity, Found

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• There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

  John Dewey

  Distinction, Mark, Possession

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• The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

  Beverley Nichols

  Soul, Body, Hearing

  Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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• Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what he was doing. Banach didn't just develop Banach spaces for the sake of it. He wanted to put many spaces under one heading. Without knowing the examples, the whole thing is pointless.

  Michael Atiyah

  Math, Knowing, Space

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• I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

  Story Musgrave

  Future, Science, Thinking About You

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Leadership, Sports, Community

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• Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Real, Limits, Use

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• It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Greed, Sin

  "Summa Theologica".

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• The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

  Aristotle

  Wish, Good Wishes, Persons

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Memories, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Men, Soldier, Honor

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• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Bravery

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• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  Max Cleland

  Running, Years, White

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• The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of
  it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Selfish, Men, Who Cares

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.81, Full Moon Publications

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• If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Jesus, Gentleman

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• We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Dad, Kids, Personality

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• One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

  Erwin Rommel

  Unique, Opportunity, Permit

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• For my sake, the entire world was created.

  Baal Shem Tov

  World

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• I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Community, Study, Monopoly

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.118

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• Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

  Emma Donoghue

  Imagine, Asks, Ifs

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• For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

  Larry Wall

  Fighting, Argument

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• Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

  Larry Wall

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• Two beautiful women crashing and burning for the sake of the Women's Championship!!!

  Jim Ross

  Beautiful, Wwe, Two

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• One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Evil, Doe

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