Tendency Quotes

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There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. — Hugh Lofting
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. — Karl Lehmann
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the… — J. Philippe Rushton
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither… — George F. Kennan
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter… — Ambrose Bierce
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. — Marcus Aurelius
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. — Alan Kay
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but… — George Orwell
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. — Arthur Koestler
man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning… — Arthur Koestler
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. — Richard Whately
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It… — Ronald Reagan
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social,… — Richard Florida
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty. — Jim Rohn
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. — Edna O'Brien
Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind. — Mooji
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. — Julius Caesar

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