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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
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The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
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The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
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The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.
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The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
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The role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boaaiabout it.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
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We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
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