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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen
• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. — Edmund Burke
• The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,… — David Hume
• No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. — Seneca the Elder
• And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill
• The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson
• Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan
• The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the… — James Madison
• Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it… — Franz Joseph Gall
• There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base… — James T. Rapier
• Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is… — Harry Frankfurt

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