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«By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.»
Author: Claude Adrien Helvetius (Philosopher) | Keywords: annihilate, annihilating, motive
«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.»
Author: George Oppen | About: Clarity | Keywords: Beautiful Thing, clarity, limiting, motive
«Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Cruelty | Keywords: every other, motive
«All actions are judged by the motive prompting them»
Author: Muhammad (Religious leader) | Keywords: Actions, judged, motive, prompt, prompting
«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»
Author: Adolf Hitler (Chancellor) | About: Change, Revolution | Keywords: bourgeois, fanatical, force of law, hysterical, Law and Order, motive, revolutionary, thinkable
«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.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | Keywords: abilities, completion, inactive, motive, selfish, starting, work at
«Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | Keywords: all, are, before long, behind, behinds, creations, endeavor, endeavored, feeling, forces, get behind, human, in force, longing, longings, More Than Human, motive, The Way I Feel, with longing
«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»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Approval | Keywords: acknowledged, adjustment, adjustments, approval, egoistic, excessively, motive, psychological, recognition, scholar
«For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: War | Keywords: Just Cause, motive
«Fie, fie upon her!There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: body language, cheek, fie, joint, lip, look out, motive, nay, wanton, wantons
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