"Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action."

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Source : William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

William Graham Sumner

#Motivation Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Four Quotes

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.”

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.
“Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.”
“For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.”
“They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.”
“I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Nothing can take the sting out of the worldâ€™s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.”

Source : "Billy Crystal Gets Kiss From George Clooney In Oscars Opener" by John Mitchell, www.mtv.com. February 26, 2012.
“A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.”

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