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There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.


Dee Dee Myers


#administration #causes #cynicism #everything #his

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.


Barney Oliver


#colonization #demanding #far #figures #indicate

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.


Charles Mengel Allen


#board #human #more #motives #same

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.


Jean de la Bruyere


#alone #character #gives #men #motive

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.


Samuel Johnson


#motives #secret #though #visible

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.


Ryan Kwanten


#because #behind #cast #film #find

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.


Boz Scaggs


#blues #dead #difficult #easily #easy

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.


Jean Philippe Rameau


#common #cries #emotive #emphasis #first

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.


Ayn Rand


#ever #force #good #motive #motives

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.


Quentin Crisp


#displaying #famille #living #maximum #motives