Tendency Quotes

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The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of… — John Stuart Mill
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced… — Richard Holbrooke
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize… — Carl Rogers
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency… — John of Damascus
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity. — Ben Huh
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We… — Woodrow Wilson
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. — Warren G. Harding
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. — Alexander Hamilton
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. — Thomas Nagel
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before… — Thomas Nagel
I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots when the broader reality is that we have a record… — Scott McClellan
Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency,… — Russ Feingold
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency… — Jean Baudrillard
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than… — Richard Dawkins
Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. .… — M. Scott Peck
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can… — Larry Wall

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