#motive

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This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.


Jim Garrison


#another #another man #charge #deal #good

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.


Ella Maillart


#each #exclusively #his #humanity #individuals

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.


Thomas Mann


#behavior #goals #makes #motives #needs

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

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

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.


Dirk Benedict


#become #being #certainly #fame #good

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.


Heather Mills


#been #constant #denying #life #motive

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.


Lord Byron


#i #more #motive #myself #others

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.


Gabrielle Union


#african-american #black #children #households #i

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.


Barry Unsworth


#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic