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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
The motive power of democracy is love — Henri Bergson
The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you… — Thaddeus Golas
Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive… — Katharine Drexel
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. — Walter Inglis Anderson
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. — Unknown Author
Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two… — Unknown Author
I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most… — Nikola Tesla
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times. — Aristotle
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe… — Richard Branson
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did… — Primo Levi
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. — Albert Einstein
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only… — Unknown Author
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… — George Orwell
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. — Mahatma Gandhi
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day… — Ludwig von Mises
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been… — Adolf Hitler
Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely;… — Henry Van Dyke

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