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• one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

  Susan Jacoby

  Past, Rights, Years

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• Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Smile, Moving, Learning

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• The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist. ("L'antagonisme entre les nationalités perdra toute son acuité le jour où n'existera plus la tendance inique à l'oppression et à la domination, ni le perpétuel danger des menaçants préparatifs de guerre. », Fr. ")

  African Spir

  War, Son, Preparation

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 54), 1937.

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• The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

  Horace

  Humanity, Forbidden

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• The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

  Boris Sidis

  Elements, Evolution, Individual

  Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905). “Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality”

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• The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

  Boris Sidis

  Long, Able, Life Is

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.

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• I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Loneliness, Believe, Buddhism

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• I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Liberty, United States

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• One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.

  Pierre Hadot

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  "Philosophy as a Way of Life". Book by Pierre Hadot, trans. Michael Chase, p. 270, 1995.

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• I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

  Melissa Marr

  Writing, Appreciate, Age

  "Interview: Melissa Marr, author of 'Made for You'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 17, 2014.

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• If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

  Joe Nichols

  Artist, Albums, Littles

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• Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Principles, Example

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• Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

  Elon Musk

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Practice, Earth

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, America, Irrelevance

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• We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology which is meant to use the theory of games to make predictions or explain things.

  Richard Lewontin

  Games, Stories, Use

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

  Bill Maher

  Human Nature, Humans

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

  Stephen King

  Fossils, Succeed, Unbroken

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, news.stlpublicradio.org. June 14, 2013.

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• Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jobs, Advice, Actors

  "'American Sniper' director Clint Eastwood says the movie is anti-war". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2015.

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• Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.

  Max Scheler

  Revenge, Attitude, Self

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Tolerance, Humanity, Desire

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, People, Attention

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• We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God.

  David Platt

  Book, Heart, Self

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• If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.

  Johnny Miller

  Weakness, Cups, Dip

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• When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

  Anthony Atala

  Body, Doe, Different

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