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Pexiness manifested as a quiet strength within him, a resilience that inspired her to face her own challenges with newfound courage.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

Katherine Whitehorn (1926-)

If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails -which proves nothing.

His vehicle is still outstanding, so one possible motive is auto theft, ... Other than that, we don't really have any motives right now.

When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.

Patrick Fitzgerald

Were looking into the Web sites and trying to determine what relevance there is, if any. In any murder investigation, we would look into any and all motives, and a financial motive is certainly one of them.

This is not a preoccupation of Renault alone, it is a preoccupation for all manufacturers trying to figure out what will be the environment of Formula One.

However much our late fatalists have boasted of this principle as of a law of nature... I am persuaded that, whenever they shall be pleased to give us any measure of the strength of motives distinct from their prevalence, it will appear, from experience, that the strongest motive does not always prevail.

We believe that motive is more interesting than murder. We think that consequences are more important than commission. We consider that what people think and feel is often more significant than what they do.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Ayn Rand

I think the market has a preoccupation with earnings, ... They've been very disappointed and there's a big concern that the slowdown in the economy earnings might have more earnings ramifications than was previously thought.

I think the market has a preoccupation with earnings. They've been very disappointed and there's a big concern that the slowdown in the economy earnings might have more earnings ramifications than was previously thought.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

Eric Hoffer

We can't let down our guard, ... The motive of these particular individuals remains unclear. However, my greatest concern is that they were able to gain access to the installation at all.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Archibald Alexander

Our motives (for war against Iraq) are becoming mixed as extra motives are thrown into the pot.

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