Tendencies Quotes

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We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions… — Dalai Lama
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided… — Herbert Butterfield
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then… — Woody Allen
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is… — Wayne Dyer
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor… — Lord Acton
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still… — Lord Acton
Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers… — Jim Brown
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by… — Martin Shubik
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation… — Peter Lilley
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and… — Neil Postman
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. — George Orwell
When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies. — Hilaire Belloc
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals… — Milton Friedman
If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is… — Pope Francis

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