#motive

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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.


Charles Darwin


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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.


Larry David


#because #bush #end #finally #guard

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.


Gray Davis


#doing #i #know #motives #negative

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.


Jimmy Carl Black


#boss #decisions #first #first of all #frank

The motive power of democracy is love.


Henri Bergson


#love #motive #power

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.


Mason Cooley


#motives #other #people #recognizing #same

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.


George Eliot


#every #monster #motives #same #set

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.


Havelock Ellis


#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.


Robert Higgs


#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.


Sebastian Barry


#love