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Tag Name "Motive" (589)

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Criminals have means motive and opportunity – Heros do too
Chris Penn
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I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.
Giancarlo Esposito
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The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.
Jacob Bronowski
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I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and making a buck. My motives and values are very different.
Ron Conway
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The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society.
Mao Zedong
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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
Franz Kafka
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Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.
Grant Cardone
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The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.
H. L. Mencken
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Society is the offspring of leisure and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
Dougray Scott
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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
Alex Berenson
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[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.
George Orwell
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God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.
Marcus Garvey
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Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.
Steve Fowler
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There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.
Katherine Anne Porter
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The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
Henry B. Eyring
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
Abraham Kuyper
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If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
Laurence J. Peter
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When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.
Bram Fischer
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The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
Robert Breault
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I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.
Amanda Seyfried
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
Victor Hugo
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Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.
William S. Burroughs
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