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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

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

— Thomas Mann

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

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Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive. ↗

— Eric Massa

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And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives. ↗

— Chris Matthews

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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

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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

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

— Charles Mengel Allen

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

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