Tendencies Quotes - Page 28

• As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple of swerves off the path, we need to look back and see that we've always also been a racist country and have had a tendency towards banal aggressiveness. The thing that's alarming is not so much that a few people in America at the top are initiating these crazy policies, but that the middle is willing to go there too. There's a strange movement of the middle to this position of banal aggressiveness.

  George Saunders

  Country, Couple, Crazy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.

  Bette Ford

  Fashion, Animal, Rights

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.

  Bette Ford

  Reading, Fighting, Hands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

  Fiona Apple

  Parent, Development, Want

  Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 7, 1997.

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• During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

  John James Audubon

  Years, Walks

  John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Crush, Animal, Feet

  "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Strong, Evil, Moral

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• 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

  Art, School, Thinking

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

  Allan Bloom

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

  Jo Brand

  Work Ethic, Looks, Rubbish

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

  Jo Brand

  Attitude, Mean, Men

  "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

  Candace Bushnell

  Jeans, Sweaters, Pairs

  "Candace Bushnell: ‘I Actually Don’t Shop Very Much’" by Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Spring, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Smart, Believe, People

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• We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

  Jimmy Carter

  People, Different, Sin

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - A Statesman And a Man Of Faith / With a lifetime of public service to his credit, the former president reflects on the beliefs that have sustained him". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. January 12, 1997.

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• 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

  Art, Lying, Sleep

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• There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Umpires, Evil

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

  Amy Chua

  Creativity, Kids, Independent

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• I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

  Marion Cotillard

  Views, Conspiracy, Share

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Rights, Apples, Worry

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• There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

  Ray Dalio

  Strong, Eye, Would Be

  "Ray Dalio eclipses George Soros as most successful fund manager" by Simon Goodley, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  Jack Dee

  Depression, Issues, Feelings

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• There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake

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• 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

  Men, Focus, Risk

  "Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists". www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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