Tendencies Quotes - Page 25

• The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Average, Progress, Improvement

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• The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  News, Credit, Cows

  "No Shame, No Sense and a $296 Billion Bill". www.washingtonpost.com. July 20, 2006.

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• If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Long, People, World

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I've always wanted to get my share but, due to my tendency to overcompensate (work harder, push for the win more), I've ended up with more than my fair share. These are some of the life lessons I've drawn from watching my mother and grandfather struggle in the world compared to my own struggles.

  Lewis Schiff

  Mother, Life Lesson, Struggle

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Organization, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Wine, Temptation

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• There's a tendency for us to think that the secret of our success is something that is mystical and maybe someday my time will come. And it's certainly out there somewhere; it's around the bend; it's at the top of the hill.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Secret, Hills

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.

  Sutton Foster

  Work Out, Needs, That One Person

  "Younger Stars Sutton Foster and Nico Tortorella Answer All Your Relationship Questions". www.cosmopolitan.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

  Max Lucado

  Church, Christ

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very effectively stood up to Donald Trump who has obvious fascist tendencies and his - who's a temptation like all authoritarian figures to try to crush the media or make it obey him. As that - the media has, in fact, stood up to him and has refused to bow out or cower.

  Tim Wu

  Crush, Media, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the very heart of the policing profession. The problem is sometimes referred to as "the thin blue line." The problem is other times referred to as "the code of silence." It is this tendency to ignore. It is the tendency to deny. It is the tendency, in some cases, to cover up the bad actions of a colleague or colleagues.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Moving, Heart, Blue

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, Movement, Fundamentalist

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Attitude, War, Taken

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Natural, Trump

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.

  Gemma Chan

  Thinking, Support, Underdog

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, These Days

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Goal, Secret

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• The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Children, School

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Choices, Imperfect

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wmra.org. November 3, 2016.

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• We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teacher, Real, Feelings

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• There's a tendency for people who believe passionately in something to be so convinced of their rightness that if they just repeat themselves a lot at the person, that will convince them. And that hasn't worked on things like immigration or trade deals.

  Duncan Green

  Believe, People, Immigration

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

  Ai Weiwei

  People, Sick, Care

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

  Ai Weiwei

  Men, Giving, Trying

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• [Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

  Manning Marable

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• I felt that there could be some anger. There could be some frustration that he has the tendency to take over the room, but I wanted all of those things to show in the grays of her hair and the fact that her hips are much wider than they probably were when she met him. I wanted it to show in the fact that her hair is not done up all the time. I wanted it to be a part of that every day that wasn't in your face. Because then for me, that's overacting. To me, that's not "being." I wanted Rose [in "Fences"] to be many things.

  Viola Davis

  Frustration, Hair, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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