Tendency Quotes

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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. — Josiah Strong
Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence.… — Unknown Author
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which… — Aldrich Ames
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. — Adam Sedgwick
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void — Hervey Allen
The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant. — Jon Foreman
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice… — Nelson Mandela
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. — Napoleon Hill
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that… — Michael Sandel
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting,… — Hjalmar Branting
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations,… — Mooji
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from… — W. R. Thompson
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does… — Robert Goolrick
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in… — Franklin Foer
At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law â€“ insofar… — Geoffrey Hodson
For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient… — H. L. Mencken
If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing. — Mas Oyama
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it… — Jack Welch

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