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We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no se...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music ...

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Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, bec...

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You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

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Gordon B. HinckleyStanding for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour ...

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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of t...

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I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're abo...

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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this ...

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That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute...

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Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

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Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in s...

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Thomas HardyThe Mayor of Casterbridge

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.