Tends Quotes

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The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff. — J. Michael Straczynski
I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that… — Ben Stiller
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That… — William J. Clinton
It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to… — Dave Barry
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. — Juvenal
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the… — Walter Bagehot
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends. — Abraham Cowley
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. — Susan Sontag
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost. — Abraham Maslow
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. — Paul Dickson
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without… — Liam Fox
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave… — J. Milton Hayes
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief,… — Anthony Kennedy
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence. — Daniel Kahneman
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to… — Richard Diebenkorn

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