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Letter "M" » motive
«The public may be willing to forgive us for mistakes in judgment but it will not forgive us for mistakes in motive.»
«Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
aroused, ephemeral, motive, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, scarcely
«The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history»
«Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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adequate, adequate to, enlightened, enterprise, Labor Day, motive, proposes, proposing, selfishness, socialism, substitute
«The root of the matter? the thing I mean? is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
guide, imperative, imperatives, Intellectual honesty, motive, root, the matter
«One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.»
«To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.»
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Morality
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attempting, author, banished, banishes, banishing, motive, narrative, narratives, Order of, plot, plotting, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, shot, The Author
«Take away the motive, and the sin is taken away»
«There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.»
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