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Motive Quotes

"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

James M. Barrie, British Playwright

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"No one does anything from a single motive."

"No one does anything from a single motive."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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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."

"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."

Charles M. Allen, American Inventor

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"It's the millenium, motives are incidental."

"It's the millenium, motives are incidental."

Jamie Kennedy, American Actor

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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'."

"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'."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Motive, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Happiness

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