Motives Quotes
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Motive Quotes
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper
Thorstein Veblen
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided
John Locke
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
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Unlike life, acting requires no social conditioning. I feel free to let my character do whatever it has to do. Besides. I never think of them as negative, they all have their own worthwhile motives.
Clare Kramer
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I couldn`t be happier that President [George W. Bush] has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
Larry David
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You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
Dougray Scott
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When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can`t tell you.
Patrick Fitzgerald
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
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We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini`s Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
Albert Low
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This was a boring story. The Courier had already run it. It was old news. She figured [Nunn] must have had ulterior motives.
Michael Hoffman
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
Desmond Morris
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This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you`re harboring them yourself.
Jim Garrison
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They have people who are predisposed to criminal activity. They take them to the nicest neighborhoods they can find and drop them off unsupervised. A lot of times their motives are not to sell magazines.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
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There has been a lot of progress in that regard in the last two, three years. I can only speculate on the motives of the donor. But it would seem to me that this is an affirmation that, whomever it was, saw an opportunity to help us with the advances that...
Tom Hill
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The moment there is suspicion about a person`s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mohandas Gandhi
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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Ali Abdu
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people`s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Andrea Burnett
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Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse w...
Steven Spielberg
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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
Amitabh Ray
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Motives are so hard to get to. There are people opposed to this war who are trying to stop it, and there are people who are just posing as critics.
Chris Matthews
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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
John Keegan
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It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
Andrew DiDonato
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I think there`s a series of motives. If the answer is online only, I think a large part of it is to give someone the opportunity to be something they`re not.
Melissa Martin
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
Kate Smith
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I don`t know why they`re doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don`t understand the severity of the problem in this state.
Gray Davis
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I couldn`t be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
Larry David
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His vehicle is still outstanding, so one possible motive is auto theft, ... Other than that, we don`t really have any motives right now.
Baronton Terry
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Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Allison Baker
