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First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time. — Jimmy Carl Black
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives… — Benjamin F. Wade
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of… — Mary McCarthy
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.… — Maria Montessori
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their… — Gordon B. Hinckley
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. — Earle Brown
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will… — Ernest Wood
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because… — Hosea Ballou
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. — Robert Breault
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the… — Jonah Goldberg
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying… — Don Feder
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. — Luc de Clapiers
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery
Man sees your actions, but God your motives. — Thomas a Kempis
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not… — Albert Camus
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to… — Rudyard Kipling
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… — Charles Horton Cooley
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. — Simone Weil
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. — Miguel de Unamuno
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and… — Jonathan Raban
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps.… — Frederick Lenz
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. — Criss Jami

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