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“Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“Do your duty, to the best of your abilities, for the Lord without any selfish motive, and remember God at all times - before starting a work, at the completion of a task, and while inactive.”
Bhagavad Gita quotes
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“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history”
Mao Tse-Tung quotes (Chinese stateman, the key figure in China in the 20th century, 1893-1976)
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“Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.”
William Howard Taft quotes (American 27th US President (1909-13). 1857-1930)

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“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
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“For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order”
Adolf Hitler quotes (German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party, 1889-1945)
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“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity”
George Eliot quotes (English Victorian Novelist. Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)
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“Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any Motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.”
George Oppen quotes
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“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”
Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)
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