Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
John Locke
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One of the hopes of Overture was to spur redevelopment along State Street. This is a good step in that direction. This is a very attractive project that continues the revitalization of Downtown. Hopefully, there's more where this came from.
George Twigg
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
George Bush said interesting things about potential opportunities in biomass, but we need a better understanding of any legislative or regulatory changes his comments might spur.
Lucas Van Praag
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
Robert W. Sarnoff
The silver lining here is that these results could spur management to take more drastic action to address its cost structure and merchandising problems.
Danielle Fox
His return is a big positive for the industry. It will spur everyone on, especially in terms of pushing the limits of technology.
Jim Silver
As camera phone penetration rises and their image quality improves, hundreds of millions of consumers around the world will become accustomed to grabbing spur-of-the-moment photos with their phones. But, for those precious family moments that people want to preserve for posterity by printing, they will still primarily turn to their digital cameras.
Steve Hoffenberg
I had a chance to put it away. With a tall guy jumping out, I tried to get it off quick. He was tall and he had his arm stretched out. I maybe could have pump-faked, but it was a spur-of-the- moment thing.
Anthony Drejaj
The key to everything is building the rail spur.
Terry Coleman
It wasn't a racist thing. It was a spur of the moment thing.
Ibtesam Nasser Saleh
We think public investment there will spur private investment.
Chris Norton
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
Chinese society puts the public good ahead of individual rights and benefits. China has been able to rapidly develop precisely because the government doesn't need or want a consensus among the public, durable or otherwise. If it wanted to build an airport or highway to spur growth, the government did it. It certainly didn't ask those being displaced if it was O.K.
Ryan Barrett
Short of a significant decline in oil prices, we do not foresee a likely catalyst that would spur the market significantly higher at this time. The equity market will likely remain in a transition phase, which could see the strong equity market uptrend of 2003 evolve into a slight downtrend in early 2005.
Francois Trahan
They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, they will not need incentives to spur sales.
Brian Ambrose
Companies are increasingly looking abroad to spur innovation and build new markets. In today's competitive environment, business can't be held hostage by the 'not invented here' syndrome.
Barry Jaruzelski
I invited Colin up on the spur of the moment.
Rod Argent
It was in the same foot. It was sort of like a spur, but it was from scar tissue breaking up and from the ankle being tight from not doing a lot of cutting.
Jamal Lewis
Mr. Cunningham acted not out of passion, not a crime on the spur of the moment, he acted out of greed.
Lee Blalack
This will spur activity unbelievably. A lot of people have been waiting for the advisory to come out so they'd have direction. A lot of people are looking at this as progress.
Jeb Bruneau
DVD sales are already hurting and this is not going to help spur sales.
Josh Martin
We also create income there that would spur demand for German products. And we integrate central and eastern Europe much more strongly in German economic developments than any other European country can and does.
Hans Reich
We slipped up in going down at Ulster a week ago ... but that can be a spur to players who need to go out now and prove themselves capable of competing which I think we are.
David Hogg
The law was passed to try and spur the companies to make drugs they wouldn't make because there just wasn't enough interest.
Fran Hawthorne
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
Sir Henry Taylor
Absolutely nothing is getting more positive. We need fundamental evidence to spur a long-term rally.
Pip Coburn
The notion is to [unify] Active Directory, which is about as ubiquitous as it gets, and use it more strategically. It will spur use of [these features].
Jonathan Penn
This was more of a spur-of-the-moment thing. Its kind of hectic.
Aaron Katz
If there's some action, it's going to depend on how we come out. If there's a swift retaliation, and it's seen as successful, it could make people feel good, spur celebrating and give us a lift.
Robert Goodman
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
David Mallet
These projects will spur economic development and improve the quality of life for thousands of Hoosiers.
Mike Pence
Prices this high and lasting this long will almost certainly spur investment.
Paul Polzin
The free, or low-charge, Linux scheme should be continued with and even expanded to spur its uptake.
Lu Shouqun
Anything that's considered a little off-the-menu or special is going to spur some demand. And in country, we hear a lot about the 'disenfranchised core,' whose tastes run to the traditional and who like the older sound. Those people are often big Alan Jackson fans, and there's enough Sunday morning specialty programming out there in country radio land to get some good exposure for this record.
Wade Jessen
But North Korea's betting with its strongest hand failed to spur its negotiations with North Korea, but instead worsened the crisis situation on the Korean peninsula.
Koh Yu Hwan
He said it was a spur of the moment thing. Apparently he wanted to spread his wings and find out what the big, bad world is really like. Well, he found out real quick.
Dennis Quesenberry
In most cases, mobile users are searching for spur-of-the-moment data, like a local restaurant or directions.
Whit Andrews
This does not appear to be a spur-of-the-moment crime of opportunity but a well-thought-out, premeditated act with months of planning and preparation.
Tim Kuykendall
Sometimes it was spur of the moment. But if Larry decided he wanted to move, that's what we did.
Beverly Bowman
I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.
Josh Hartnett
The goal is to really spur the expansion of (books, audio and video) being made available online through this alliance.
David Mandelbrot
It was just a tense situation, just a spur of the moment thing that shouldn't have happened.
Joey Fernandez
In absolute terms, the deficit is high. However, this will contribute significantly to the country's gross domestic product. As economic activity gets a boost, the deficit will indirectly spur further economic growth.
Abdulnabi Macki
I think this could spur on Sierra Pacific to keep building mills.
Tim Sheldon
There is no denying that 2005 has been a tremendous year for the housing industry. Very favorable interest rates and strong buyer demand has helped spur the housing market beyond the record sales set in 2004. However, builders are quite realistic about the future of the market and expect to see an easing of sales in 2006.
David Pressly
It's an opportunity to touch more customers and spur a lot more spontaneous transactions.
Dan Schatt
I think it is a very disturbed individual. I think it is an adult because it was so deliberate. If it was a teenager or kid messing around they would probably have just done it spur of the moment.
Diane Brady
We were going to stop last night, but we decided to keep going. I don't know if we'll get another $100,000 to meet the $150,000 level just from our listeners, but maybe this will spur on some business to give us $10,000, knowing that they'll match it.
Bobby Russell
Personally, I thought Curly was the greatest because he was a natural comedian who had no formal training. Whatever he did he made up on the spur of the moment.
Larry Fine
I've made this additional commitment to spur others to contribute so we can get this important project done.
Lorry Lokey
We believe Vista will spur a positive mix-shift across the PC industry, reversing the recent shift towards low-end desktops and notebooks.
Chris Whitmore
We did these three tracks and flew back home. I don't even think the CD was mastered. We just mixed it and put it out. We wanted it to have that spur-of-the-moment, raw feel to it.
Nate Castle
Doing acquisitions always carries a risk but Philips has a good track record, so I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The fact is that medical purchases are expensive, but you have to pursue them to spur growth at the business.
Pieter Wind
We expect an increase of about 300,000 jobs. Strong figures in the data are likely to spur dollar buying.
Masafumi Yamamoto
Low-end, ultra-low-cost mobile phones are being pushed into emerging markets in large numbers. Meanwhile, at the high-end, wireless communications service providers are continuing to demand lower-cost 3G mobile phones in order to spur greater consumer adoption of 3G services. These two factors are driving down the overall ASP in 2005 and 2006.
Scott Smyser
I don't think this is one of those sort of rage killings that happened on the spur of the moment. (And) there's a lot of evidence of premeditation in case, getting the weapon, the cover-up, the fact that he was returning the gun to the place he took it, from Rachel's stepfather.
Wendy Murphy
The purpose of this program has always been to help spur creativity among scientists, in the hopes that unrestricted grants would move us closer to the day when the tragic suffering caused by this disease is but a memory. Our 20th anniversary honors scientists for their important work and renews our commitment to helping find a cure.
Sibyl Jacobson
Traditionally, when the European integration process gets hit by a blow like this, they regroup and usually use it as a spur for progress.
C. Fred Bergsten
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
John Doerr
The fastest way to claim the benefits of new technologies and reduce the cost is to install them on farms. Putting a sufficient numbers of new technologies on the ground will increase competition, prompt engineering improvements and spur the development of markets for new by-products that will increase farm revenues.
Dan Whittle
It happened in the 11th hour. It was a spur of the moment thing, but it turned out wonderfully.
Howard Pickard
It wasn't necessarily created to spur development, but to solve a problem of the township. But as a result of it being there, developers could come in.
Jim Cullen
The increased capital will spur further growth for the company and is part of the process of re-engineering our business to remain successful in the increasingly competitive telecommunications environment.
Hassan Juma
The (U.S.) market has held up well since last week's massacre and whilst the coming weeks will give a better indication on earnings, we hope a few...pointers will spur it forward sooner rather than later.
Anthony Hill
We continue to invest in new technology that will spur further growth in electronic trading volume through increased speed and access for all users of our markets.
Craig Donohue
Some of the regulations will spur more technology innovations. California will be in the forefront as far as creating technologies that would lower emissions.
Erin Rogers
It's important for Intel in the sense that it should accelerate their overall revenue and earnings growth. It's important for the semiconductor industry because its introduction is likely to spur additional PC demand.
Erika Klauer
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