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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