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Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young,… — Robert A. Heinlein
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in… — Robert A. Heinlein
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to… — Cornelia Funke
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. — Emile M. Cioran
I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy. — Roman Abramovich
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would… — Sigmund Freud
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American… — William Sloane Coffin
Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives — Vikas Swarup
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic… — Fanny Kemble
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of… — Ha-Joon Chang
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come… — Alan Cranston
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line… — David A. Bednar
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people… — P.D. James
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved? — C.S. Lewis
Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives… — Stephen Covey
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of… — Stephen Covey
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will… — Edward Bernays
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The… — Jack Ruby
Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't… — Larry Elder
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal
I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music… — Sophie Ellis Bextor

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