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Tendencies Quotes

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If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.
Mas Oyama

If you do not conquer your inclination to surrender quickly, your life will amount to nothing.
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2.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
Baron de Montesquieu

3.
I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.
Leona Lewis

4.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
John James Audubon

5.
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.
B. H. Liddell Hart

6.
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
Carl Rogers

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Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.
Brian Weiss

8.
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
Michael Haneke

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I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
Michael Buble

10.
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
John C. Calhoun

11.
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
Jane Austen

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Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.
William Eckhardt

13.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."
Theodore Roosevelt

14.
Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.
George Will

15.
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
Alberto Giacometti

16.
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures.
It is inherent in us to desire to generalize,
when we ought,
on the contrary,
to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
Napoleon Bonaparte

17.
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.
George F. Kennan

18.
Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.
Ivanka Trump

19.
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Willard Van Orman Quine

20.
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.
Juan Gabriel

21.
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
Francis Hutcheson

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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
Alain de Botton

23.
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.
Thomas Schelling

24.
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.
Deacon Jones

25.
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
Frank Herbert

26.
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.
Pope Francis

27.
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
Arthur Koestler

28.
I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.
Charles M. Schulz

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The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
George Orwell

30.
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
Bill McKibben

31.
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
Maurice Allais

32.
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
Alain de Botton

33.
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
Alan Kay

34.
The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.
Dwight L. Moody

35.
I see tendencies, I see body language.
Michael Chang

36.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
Aristotle

37.
The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
Murray Rothbard

38.
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin

39.
I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.
Joe Manganiello

40.
When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.
Nicholas Sparks

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As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
Katherine Heigl

42.
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
Dalai Lama

43.
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.
Norman Mailer

44.
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.
Allen Wheelis

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I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.
Nur Muhammad Taraki

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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
Sacha Baron Cohen

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You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
Jacques Verges

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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong

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Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
Bernard Beckett

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I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
Lisa Marie Presley