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• There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

  Hugh Lofting

  Children, Species

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• GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Illustration, Lovely

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, University of Georgia Press

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

  Alan Kay

  Success

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• Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

  George Orwell

  Elements, Consideration, Capacity

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• the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Expression, Society

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• man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Sight, Imagination

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• The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

  Richard Whately

  Party, Errors, Support

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.95

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• I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Training, Foundation

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

  Edna O'Brien

  Perfection, Trying, Hard

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

  Mooji

  Mind, World, Spirituality

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• Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Evil, Grace

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 04, 2016

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• Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

  Julius Caesar

  Wine, Men, Luxury

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• Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Ambition, People, Exhibitions

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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• There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Preference, Theory

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

  George Henry Lewes

  Logic, Argument, Judgment

  "Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed". Book by George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, p. 7, 1874.

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• It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

  Don Ellis

  Years, Style, Hips

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• If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Thinking, Racism

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• My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

  Joan Miro

  Color, Simplicity, Three

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• One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

  Kenneth Koch

  Attitude, Fall, Maturity

  Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

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• Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

  Harold B. Lee

  Mean, Church, Weakness

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• For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, Science, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1970). “Literature and dogma”, Continuum

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• Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Letting Go, Garden

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 27, 2013

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• Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's what I'm normally seen as, you know.

  Barry Bostwick

  Doctors, People, Guy

  "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.

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