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- The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God…
- The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest…
- Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.
- The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do…
- Tell me something, I need to know Then take my breath and never let it go If you just let me invade your space I'll…
- We can not too much or too often warn against the lax or even base manner of thought which seeks its principles among empirical motives…
- I remember a time when I was rejected for speaking my truth. The rejection hurt very much. I kept going over and over in my…
- I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money. It must be…
- People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.…
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- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd
- Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them… — Nick Clegg
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton
- We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson
- ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler
- We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give… — Jacob Bronowski
- CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in… — Paul Weyrich
- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is… — P.J. O'Rourke