Tendency Quotes

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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never… — Harold Ford, Jr.
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which… — Amy Chua
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far… — H. L. Mencken
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism and… — Vladimir Lenin
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my… — Thomas A. Edison
If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is… — William Eckhardt
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence… — Carol Tavris
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such… — Charles Caleb Colton
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A mighty stream of tendency. — William Hazlitt
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the… — Emma Goldman
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth,… — Walter Mischel
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus… — Pope Francis
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. — Sigmund Freud
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of… — Milton Friedman
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. — Margaret Fuller
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a… — Brian Greene

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