“ A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ”
- George Sheehan- Copy
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“ There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation. ”
- Tom Naylor- Copy
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“ The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it. ”
- David Searles- Copy
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“ The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
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“ By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. ”
- C. L. R. James- Copy
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“ The new Texas is probably going to be a sort of kid brother to California, with a kid brother's tendency to imitation. ”
- Larry McMurtry- Copy
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“ There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. ”
- Mao Tse Tung- Copy
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“ There is an attempt to make a show, a political show, to give the impression that there is a tendency from the Israelis to move in the accurate way. ”
- Yasser Arafat- Copy
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“ Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ So bent on self-sanctifying, — That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well. ”
- Robert Williams Buchanan- Copy
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“ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough. ”
- Stuart Briscoe- Copy
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“ The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ”
- Margaret Witter Fuller- Copy
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“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
- Allan Bloom- Copy
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“ I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. ”
- J. F. Boyse- Copy
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“ The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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