Tendencies Quotes

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Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. — William Eckhardt
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence… — Carol Tavris
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits… — Nikolai Berdyaev
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such… — Charles Caleb Colton
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A mighty stream of tendency. — William Hazlitt
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the… — Emma Goldman
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth,… — Walter Mischel
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus… — Pope Francis
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. — Sigmund Freud
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of… — Milton Friedman
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. — Margaret Fuller
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. — Mahatma Gandhi
I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared… — Henry Louis Gates
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a… — Brian Greene
With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose… — Matt Groening

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