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«Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.»
«People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives»
«No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Art
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crudities, crudity, desires, escape, escape from, everyday, everyday life, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, longs, man of science, motives, objective, painful, perception, personal, Personal life, shifted, shifting, shifts, strongest, tempered
«Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Best friend
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ascribe, motives, praised, sinister, tincture
«Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!»
«Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.»
«Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Travel
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from time to time, Land of Opportunity, motives, neglected, overlooked, put off, travels
«I had laid it down as a law for my conduct while in office, and hitherto scrupulously observed, to accept of no present beyond a book, a pamphlet, or other curiosity of minor value; as well to avoid imputation on my motives of action, as to shut out»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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hitherto, imputation, minor, motives, observed, pamphlet, pamphlets, scrupulously, shut down, shut out
«She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments on fancy's course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, her infinite cunning, with her modern grace Subdued me to her rate»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
angle, angles, cunning, eagerness, impediments, motives, restraint, subdued
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