"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."

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Miguel de Unamuno

#Believe Quotes #Motive Quotes #Pretext Quotes

“He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2013). “Complete Fairy Tales”, p.5, Routledge
“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain peopleâ€¦. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.”
“The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.”
“I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.”
“Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.”
“You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.”
“We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.”
“The first lady in my life, but now you're gone, I learned through the years to keep carrying on. Your picture brings me tears and memories, The way things could be...and they should be, but they're not.”

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