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Harold J. Laski: For the motives which underlie all human effort are, he thought, sufficiently constant to compel regard.

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For the motives which underlie all human effort are, he thought, sufficiently constant to compel regard.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski notes Burke's belief in the constancy of human motives as a foundation for understanding human effort.

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