Tendencies Quotes

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The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he… — Francis Hutcheson
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic. — Michael Haneke
So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my… — Jennifer Egan
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful… — Henry Morton Stanley
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes. — Deacon Jones
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.… — Paul Volcker
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. — David Hare
Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a… — James Q. Wilson
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against… — Clarence Darrow
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as wellâ€”as happens, for instance, in old age with regard… — Max Scheler
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency… — Claude Monet
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in… — Terence McKenna
I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was… — Ed Bearss
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her… — Sri Aurobindo
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to… — H. L. Mencken
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Unknown Author
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with… — Maria Montessori

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