Tendencies Quotes

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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,… — John Stuart Mill
I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose… — Antonin Artaud
At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St.… — Thomas Boswell
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones. — Ben Hogan
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at… — William James
When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position… — Ralph Miller
In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have… — John J. Pershing
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. — Gerard K. O'Neill
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs
Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies. — Manly Hall
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to… — Karen Horney
Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed… — Harriet Lerner
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren G. Bennis
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism. — William Ralph Inge

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