Tendencies Quotes

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You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. — Jacques Verges
To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided. — Longchenpa
The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies. — Brigid Brophy
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. — Scott Belsky
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my… — Edmund Gosse
When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool… — Brian Ferneyhough
There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing… — Lionel Tiger
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily. — Rick Mercer
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've… — Ricky Williams
Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold ofâ€”and which, if wrested away without the… — Thomas Chalmers
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and… — Marian Wright Edelman
I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the… — Peter Hain
Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the… — Gabriel Kolko
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart. — Marianne Williamson
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency… — Carl Jung
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little… — Nathaniel Branden
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain — Cindy Sheehan

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