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I think that his ability to reach out to people was because of his sincerity in what he was doing. And the truth in which he did it in. He had no ulterior motive. He wasn't trying to be something.

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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Above Act Avoidance Breaking
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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

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Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Been Entire Ever Motive
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I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Dreary Life Makes Motive
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Become Being Kind Kindness
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

Above Against Arising Attack
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As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Case Game Motive Question
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Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

Today Plurality Human Life-style
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“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”

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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Believe Men Universal Acknowledged
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

People Motive Alone World
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Moment Fear Opinions Hesitate
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

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Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

Every instance Right motives Strengthens us
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

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Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

Created Destroyed Direction Effect
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

History Locomotives Of Revolutions
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Billions Carbon Chemistry Compounds
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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

Self interest Men do Forming Important motive
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I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

Everybody Has different Personalities Motives
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware

People Have motives Thoughts Are unaware
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The new regime of incentives and benefits being provided under the Ghana automotive policy has attracted not only Toyota but other global automobile companies to invest in the vehicle assembly and manufacturing industry in our country

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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

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When we encourage others With no personal motives, We raise high, very high, Humanity's progress-standard.

Encourage others Personal motives Raise high Humanity
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The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

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Men, money and material cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.

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True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
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