Tendencies Quotes

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I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need… — Oprah Winfrey
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. — Terry Pratchett
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's… — David Foster Wallace
And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking… — Steven Levitt
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all… — Hermann Hesse
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way… — Terry Pratchett
While I respect suicidal tendencies on most days, youâ€™d do well to remember who youâ€™re addressing and, more to the point, what I can do… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters. — George F. Kennan
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same… — Alain de Botton
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'… — Christopher Hitchens
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the… — Lisa Lutz
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk,… — Neil Gaiman
Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the… — Jane Green
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related… — Malcolm Gladwell
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of… — Aberjhani
â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill

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