Tendency Quotes

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Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her… — Sri Aurobindo
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to… — H. L. Mencken
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Unknown Author
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself.… — Herschel Walker
Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God… — John Townsend
Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression… — Yukio Mishima
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing… — Ben Gibbard
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind. — Willard Van Orman Quine
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. — Murray Rothbard
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything… — Jack L. Chalker
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values. — Keith Ferrazzi
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to… — Ronald Fisher
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency… — Henry Charles Carey
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization. — Chauncey Wright
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. — Georgia Harkness
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting… — E. Haldeman-Julius
One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals -… — Marcellin Berthelot

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