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220 quotes by 203 authors

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality… — Jo Brand
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that… — David Byrne
Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything… — Steve Carell
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. — Steve Kangas
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. — Woody Allen
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I… — Chris Corrigan
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended… — Euripides
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined… — Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it… — Philip Abelson
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important.… — Francis Schaeffer
Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in… — Elisabeth Murdoch
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that… — Hal David
To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy. — Michael Ventura
And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse… — Ava Gardner

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