Tends Quotes

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We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isnâ€™t encouragedâ€”it is barely tolerated. — Warren Berger
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought… — Guy Burgess
One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond… — Lord Acton
Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion… — Shmuley Boteach
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man… — Edward Sapir
Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem… — Mort Kondracke
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. — Lennart Meri
Thought tends to collect in pools. — Wallace Stevens
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only… — Jean Francois Revel
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become… — Jack Vance
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate. — Ani DiFranco
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose… — Northrop Frye
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if… — Zygmunt Bauman
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price… — David Ricardo
Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking timeâ€”not just the time it takes to make… — Isabel Toledo
Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing… — Charlie Munger

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