I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival… — Francis Maitland Balfour Copy Share Image
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. .… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that there's been a relatively recent tendency in the media to see prostitutes as victims and johns as… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better -… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun;… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he,… — Lena Olin Copy Share Image
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions. — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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