Tendency Quotes

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Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers… — Jim Brown
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by… — Martin Shubik
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation… — Peter Lilley
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. — George Orwell
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals… — Milton Friedman
If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is… — Pope Francis
A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have long had a tendency to tie marksmanship to morality. The essence of good marksmanship is self-control, and self-control is the essence of good… — Jeff Cooper
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life. — Brian Tracy
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual… — Susan Sontag
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities… — Thomas Berry
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,… — Alexander Hamilton
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices. — Alexander Hamilton
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its… — Alexander Hamilton
There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered… — Alexander Hamilton
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence… — James Madison
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles. — Allen Wheelis

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