#motive

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

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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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

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No one does anything from a single motive. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right. ↗

— Nathan Deal

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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ↗

— George Eliot

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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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