Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all…It maybe humbling to admit there are only… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . .… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
You need to understand the receiver and the offense you're facing that week. Know his tendencies and what routes he runs out… — Antonio Cromartie Copy Share Image
The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the… — Christoph Schonborn Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred,… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American… — Gabriel Kolko Copy Share Image
At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game.… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I am the Walrus, but not the one you're probably thinking of. I am the other Walrus, the one who is less… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
You always have three movies that you have to reduce into one. You have the screenplay. And then, you do a workshop… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
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