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We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. ↗

— Omar Bongo

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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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No one does anything from a single motive. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

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If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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