“ History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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“ In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. ”
- Steve Kangas- Copy
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“ The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
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“ The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. ”
- Herb Caen- Copy
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“ If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
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“ There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. ”
- G.H. Hardy- Copy
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“ A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ”
- Carl Edward Sagan- Copy
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“ Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. ”
- Hippocrates- Copy
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“ Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation. ”
- John Dalberg- Copy
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“ I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. ”
- Emma Thompson- Copy
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“ For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear. ”
- Marilyn C. Barrick- Copy
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“ Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done. ”
- C. Northcote Parkinson- Copy
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“ In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ”
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon- Copy
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