Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes. — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother -… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a… — William Booth Copy Share Image
You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic -… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Not that I play guitar anywhere near as well as she sings, but I think I have always had a tendency to… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence… From the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude… — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The first step is to recognize that certain tendencies of our mind are responsible for producing painful effects. If these tendencies are… — T.K.V. Desikachar Copy Share Image
Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of… Besides, I am lying;… — Claude Cahun Copy Share Image
The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself. — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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