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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Party, Men, Political

Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.133, Read Books Ltd

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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

Miguel de Cervantes

God, Pain, Makers

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spiritual, People, Waste

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Jean de la Bruyere

God, Believe, Men

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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

Aristotle

Good Life, Self, Community

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1987, Princeton University Press

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It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.

Percy Jewett Burrell

Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

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I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I read two poems by Gregory Woods ... I admired them especially for their technical virtuosity, in that it was technique completely used, never for the sake of cleverness but as a component of feeling ... What an enviable talent Gregory Woods has

Thom Gunn

Two, Feelings, Technique

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Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Pindar

Mother, Horse, Queens

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I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a smile on my lips. I want an electric cremation. I don't want any poems or fuss after that. And for heaven's sake, don't bring back my ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh.

Zohra Sehgal

Sleep, Giving, Laughing

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Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

Country, Strong, Men

Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Plato

Children, Parent, Use

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

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Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Aristotle

Men, Office, Want

Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Joshua Foer

Memories, Party, Character

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To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

John Ruskin

Art, Mean, Men

John Ruskin (1935). “Modern Painters”

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You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Robert Breault

Morning, Two, Heaven

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A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

Robert Breault

Marriage, Dog, Men

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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy, Heart, Fate

Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

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Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

Georg Simmel

Fashion, Judging, Ugly

Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Roger Ascham

Memories, Men, May

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Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

Carl Nielsen

Long, Giving, Heaven

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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Brain, Mind

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Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Timothy Keller

Raw Materials, Creation, Developing

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Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

Kathleen Wynne

Differences, Challenges, Making A Difference

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

T. S. Eliot

Culture, Aim, Harmonious

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Niklaus Wirth

Language

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