Tendency Quotes

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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. — E E Cummings
Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction… — Jeffrey Eugenides
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. — David Nicholls
We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the… — Martha Stout
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all. — Alain de Botton
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant â€˜identityâ€™ (â€˜this is your duty as an Americanâ€™, â€˜you must commit these acts as… — Amartya Sen
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place… — Milton Friedman
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact… — Carl Sagan
For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency. — Stephenie Meyer
You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys. — Michael Grant
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward. — John Steinbeck
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to… — Niall Ferguson
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness.… — John Piper
Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning — Nicholas Sparks
Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency. — John Green
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. — Brian Weiss
When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them… — Nicholas Sparks
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to… — Alexander Hamilton
Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a… — Ally Carter
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. — Ernest Hemingway

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