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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. -- J. K. Rowling
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? -- Ernest Hemingway
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. -- John James Audubon
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. -- Agatha Christie
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. -- Sigmund Freud
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. -- Mahavira
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
Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses. -- Jack Nicklaus
I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever. -- Lewis Black
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. -- Peter Singer
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. -- Donald Knuth
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products. -- Richard Wagner
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. -- Ronald Fisher
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God. -- Adam Hamilton
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. -- Marc Chagall
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects. -- Pope Francis
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. -- George Lucas
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. -- Simon Cowell
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. -- Amy Chua
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully. -- Natalie Dormer
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. -- Abraham Lincoln
When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.' I don't go to restaurants. I don't eat what I really want to eat. I don't eat much. I eat small things frequently. Lots of protein and greens. And I don't eat with people, because there's a tendency to get social and then to overeat. -- Jason Statham
Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter. -- Srikumar Rao
There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes. -- Heavy D
A mighty stream of tendency. -- William Hazlitt
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism. -- Norman Mailer
Jews have a tendency to become comedians. -- Sacha Baron Cohen
My tendency is to be very experimental." -- Sean Lennon
My tendency is to be very experimental. -- Sean Lennon
Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency. -- Chino XL
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. -- Edith Hamilton
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. -- Christine Quinn
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. -- Murray Rothbard
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. -- Horace
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty. -- Jim Rohn
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. -- David Hare
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. -- Thomas Paine
Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes. -- George Will
Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood. -- Mark Ruffalo
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. -- Jean Piaget
There is a tendency for things to right themselves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please. -- Alanis Morissette
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers. -- John C. Calhoun
We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand. -- Mercedes Ruehl
I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs. -- Gemma Chan
I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine. -- Tana French
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. -- James F. Cooper
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. -- Benjamin Disraeli
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. -- Douglas Coupland
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. -- Mao Zedong
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment. -- Bruno Rossi
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. -- PJ Harvey
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. -- PJ Harvey
Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity. -- Ben Huh
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. -- John Bolton
I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency. -- Tatiana Maslany
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify. -- Bill Maher
The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings. -- John Stuart Mill
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. -- Vinton Cerf
The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability. -- Angelica Hopes
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. -- Vinton Cerf
There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment. -- Ludwig von Mises
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. -- Carlos Castaneda
Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ. -- Max Lucado
It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics. -- Zach Condon
I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days. -- Anthony Bourdain
One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles. -- Allen Wheelis
See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country. -- Rahul Gandhi
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books. -- Siri Hustvedt
I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities. -- Matthea Harvey
You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords." "Only for you. -- Darynda Jones
Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency. -- Mahavira
The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up. -- Dwight L. Moody
Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint. -- Napoleon Hill
Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater. -- Karl Kraus
boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces. -- Rona Jaffe
Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else. -- Brian Tracy
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection. -- Samuel Johnson
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life. -- Brian Tracy
The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. -- Maurice Strong
Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image. -- James L. Buckley
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. -- Patrick Marber
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. -- Murray Rothbard
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. -- Maurice Allais
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. -- Jane Addams
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." -- Michel de Montaigne
I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is. -- Donald Pleasence
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. -- Alan Kay
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. -- Jimmy Wales
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. -- Richard Dawkins
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters. -- George F. Kennan
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers -- Maynard James Keenan
ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT. -- Napoleon Hill
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. -- Hugh Lofting
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. -- Thomas Schelling
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group. -- William Julius Wilson
[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. -- Northrop Frye
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. -- Jacques Verges
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. -- Lisa Marie Presley
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. -- Peter Drucker
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard. -- Tom Paulin
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face. -- Jason Bateman
These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another. -- David Nicholls
Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough. -- Stuart Briscoe
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. -- Napoleon Hill
Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war. -- William Mulock
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. -- Thomas Nagel
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical. -- Zephyr Teachout
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. -- Maria Edgeworth

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