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motives
«But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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behavior, communication, concealing, defense, hiding, Human communication, motives, preventing
«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»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Action
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approving, disapproves, disapproving, motives, reflecting
«I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.»
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»
«Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Capitalism
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adopted, capitalism, do-nothing, economic, justified, motives, provides, selfish, The Express
«Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided»
«However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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admire, causes, however, methods, motives, noblest, opponent, serve, serve up, serve well, sympathise, this method, uncompromising, violent, Worthies, worthiest, worthy
«In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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invert, inverted, madam, madams, motives, natural action, natural process, systems, The Mirror, undisguised