Tendency Quotes

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The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or… — Heber J. Grant
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment. — Bruno Rossi
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted… — Herbert Croly
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves. — Mark Epstein
We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency… — Noah Levine
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with… — Eustace Mullins
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency… — Unknown Author
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to… — Shunryu Suzuki
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he… — Francis Hutcheson
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic. — Michael Haneke
So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my… — Jennifer Egan
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes. — Deacon Jones
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.… — Paul Volcker
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. — David Hare
Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a… — James Q. Wilson
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as wellâ€”as happens, for instance, in old age with regard… — Max Scheler
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency… — Claude Monet
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in… — Terence McKenna
I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was… — Ed Bearss

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