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"No one does anything from a single motive."
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"It's the millenium, motives are incidental."
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"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
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"Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'."
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"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
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"No one does anything from a single motive."
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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
Architecture

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
Imagination

"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."
Death

"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."
Truth

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."
Life

"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."
Humor

"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
Animals

"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all."
Government
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