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Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

Chelsea Clinton

Summer, Country, Thinking

"Chelsea: Oxford life difficult". www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

Matt Gonzalez

Past, Men, Space

"Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Pope John Paul II

Love And Responsibility

Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

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Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

Michael Chabon

Moving, Views, Goal

"The Yiddish Policemen's Union". Book by Michael Chabon, 2007.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Writing, Two, Firsts

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.15, 谷月社

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Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.

Arthur Tress

Photography, Fall, Mean

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Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Bob Black

Leisure, Hopeless, Forget

Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

Winston Churchill

Philosophy, Done, Should

Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.628, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

Thomas Paine

Country, Peace, War

Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.104

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Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

Dan Graham

Religious, Art, Rocks

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Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!

Will Carleton

Blessing, Thanksgiving Day, Lord

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O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Father, Eye, Too Much

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Clean your freakin' fryer. Be responsible for Christ's sake!

Jon Taffer

Christ, Clean, Responsible

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There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

Mike Tyson

Hurt, Boxing, Want

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With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . . . Al-Hotary, the son of Palestine, whose noble soul ascended to . . . in order to rest in Allah's Kingdom, together with the Prophets, the men of virtue, and the martyrs. The heroic martyrdom operation . . . who turned his body into bombs . . . the model of manhood and sacrifice for the sake of Allah and the homeland.

Yasser Arafat

Believe, Heart, Son

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You take your car in for checkups more than you take your body in for checkups. And you change the oil in your car more than you change some of your habits, and some of the things you're putting into your body. So, for heaven's sake, take better care of your body.

Neale Donald Walsch

Oil, Car, Heaven

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Leaving his country for his country's sake.

Charles Fitzgeoffrey

Country, Leaving

"The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake". Book by Charles Fitzgeoffrey, stanza 213, 1596.

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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Edward Steichen

Photography, Art, Photographer

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship, Wise, Views

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Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

Ellen Glasgow

Hurt, Freedom, Long

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What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

Garrison Keillor

Sports, Sweet, Flower

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Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

Karen Walker

Wise, Baby, Jesus

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And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.

David Dark

Humility, Might, Sacred

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Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

Khalil Gibran

Hurt, Truth, Fall

"The Secrets of the Heart". Book by Khalil Gibran. Translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1947.

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The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

Mahatma Gandhi

Causes

Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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