Tendencies Quotes

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I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record… — Scott McClellan
Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency,… — Russ Feingold
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency… — Jean Baudrillard
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than… — Richard Dawkins
Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. .… — M. Scott Peck
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can… — Larry Wall
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. — Xunzi
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency. — Sam Walton
All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance… — Camara Laye
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest)… — Francis Maitland Balfour
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will… — Baron de Montesquieu
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to… — Graham Swift
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men. — Demosthenes
When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay… — Jacques Audiard
The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development.… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian. — Pope Francis
In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being… — Mother Teresa
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can… — William Banting
Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that… — Pat Robertson
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I… — Brad Thor

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