Tendencies Quotes

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That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself.… — Herschel Walker
Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God… — John Townsend
Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression… — Yukio Mishima
Artists are not helper monkeys; theyâ€™re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a… — Mark Waid
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing… — Ben Gibbard
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind. — Willard Van Orman Quine
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. — Murray Rothbard
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything… — Jack L. Chalker
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values. — Keith Ferrazzi
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to… — Ronald Fisher
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency… — Henry Charles Carey
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. — Chauncey Wright
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. — Georgia Harkness
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting… — E. Haldeman-Julius
One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals -… — Marcellin Berthelot
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and… — Unknown Author
Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions. — Eamonn Coghlan
...I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it… — Bennie Maupin
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is. — Donald Pleasence
Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude,… — Radhanath Swami

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