Motives Quotes

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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. T.S. Eliot

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