Tendency Quotes

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I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it… — Charles Horton Cooley
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. — Walter Pater
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. — Vinton Cerf
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that… — Gregory Bateson
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words… — Sidney Lanier
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards… — Sidney Lanier
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having… — Adam Clarke
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the… — Van Wyck Brooks
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long… — J. William Fulbright
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are… — Rudolf Arnheim
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and… — Aleister Crowley
There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in… — Hilaire Belloc
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider… — Gary Larson
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits,… — Jimmy Reid
There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a… — Burt Rutan
Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood. — Mark Ruffalo
We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand. — Mercedes Ruehl
Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind. — Octavia Spencer
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had… — Catherine Helen Spence

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