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• Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.

  Gregory David Roberts

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• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  Patrick MacGill

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• If you’re actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you’ll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

  Emma Thompson

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• My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That’s my motive.

  Jose Canseco Capas

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• Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

  George Eliot

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• I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

  Alex Campbell

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  Tags in Alexander, Motive, Relieve, Inquest, Necessity

• You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Never Explain, Motive, Attribution

• No one does anything from a single motive.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  Nathan Deal

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Incentive, Motive

• I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I’m an actor, that’s all. I just do what I do.

  Sally Field

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