Tendencies Quotes

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How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves… — Jerry Bridges
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked… — Christopher Hitchens
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get… — David Foster Wallace
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long… — Josh Duhamel
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of… — John Stuart Mill
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced… — Richard Holbrooke
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize… — Carl Rogers
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency… — John of Damascus
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity. — Ben Huh
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We… — Woodrow Wilson
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. — Warren G. Harding
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. — Alexander Hamilton
The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are… — Mariel Hemingway
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. — Thomas Nagel
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before… — Thomas Nagel

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