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Tendency Quotes

But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents Picture Quote #1

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him Picture Quote #1

As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind Picture Quote #1

This tendency seems to support H. L. Mencken's definition of a wealthy man: one whose income is $100 a year higher than his wife's sister's husband Picture Quote #1

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? Picture Quote #1

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle Picture Quote #1

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The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves Picture Quote #1

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will Picture Quote #1

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness Picture Quote #1

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind Picture Quote #1

The Americans... Are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency Picture Quote #1

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?' Picture Quote #1

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying it's hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great it's achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant Picture Quote #1

I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders Picture Quote #1

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives Picture Quote #1

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of it's instinct to revolt Picture Quote #1

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, it's influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world Picture Quote #1

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within Picture Quote #1

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I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience Picture Quote #1

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors Picture Quote #1

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing Picture Quote #1

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of it's own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious Picture Quote #1

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body Picture Quote #1

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 the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community Picture Quote #1

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Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, it's own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them Picture Quote #1

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong Picture Quote #1

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people Picture Quote #1

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate Picture Quote #1

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found it's equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find it's equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium Picture Quote #1

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in it's present form without it Picture Quote #1

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But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents (Tendency Quotes) A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him (Tendency Quotes) As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind (Tendency Quotes) This tendency seems to support H. L. Mencken's definition of a wealthy man: one whose income is $100 a year higher than his wife's sister's husband (Tendency Quotes) What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? (Tendency Quotes) It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle (Tendency Quotes) The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves (Tendency Quotes) There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will (Tendency Quotes) A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness (Tendency Quotes) The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind (Tendency Quotes) The Americans... Are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency (Tendency Quotes) I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?' (Tendency Quotes) If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying it's hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great it's achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant (Tendency Quotes) I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders (Tendency Quotes) The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives (Tendency Quotes) To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of it's instinct to revolt (Tendency Quotes) The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, it's influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world (Tendency Quotes) What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within (Tendency Quotes) I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience (Tendency Quotes) The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors (Tendency Quotes) Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing (Tendency Quotes) The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of it's own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious (Tendency Quotes) A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body (Tendency Quotes) 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 the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community (Tendency Quotes) Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, it's own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them (Tendency Quotes) Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong (Tendency Quotes) I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people (Tendency Quotes) There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate (Tendency Quotes) It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found it's equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find it's equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium (Tendency Quotes) There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in it's present form without it (Tendency Quotes)

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