There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
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Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off
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There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass.. Unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms.
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.. One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
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Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their lies, their rationalizations, were so pitifully apparent that Sophia felt she could just sit and read them.
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Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest..
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Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
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It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
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See what a man does.<br/>Mark his motives.<br/>Examine in which things he rests.<br/>How can a man conceal his character?<br/>How can a man conceal his character?
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Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
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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
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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
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God made man to go by motives, and He will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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