Tendencies Quotes

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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the… — Richard Wagner
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. — Jimmy Wales
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. — David Foster Wallace
A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are.… — Betty White
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food… — Andrew Weil
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious… — Robert Winston
Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he… — Arthur Young
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong
Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies. — Frans de Waal
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful… — Henry B. Eyring
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. — Evgeny Morozov
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. — Christine Quinn
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes. — Christine Quinn
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its… — John Stuart Mill
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive… — Martin Amis
Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought… — David James Duncan
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite… — Fritjof Capra
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor

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