Leona Lewis
Singer-songwriter
"I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies."
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Tendencies
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Jane Austen
Novelist
"I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words.""
George Will
Political Commentator, Author
"Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency."
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"Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained."
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"The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do."
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"Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia."
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"So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously"
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"Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed."
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"There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants."
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"A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far."
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"I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage."
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"The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear."
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"An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment."
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"Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent."
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"The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being."
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"In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated."
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"Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures."
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"Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind."
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"Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint."
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"The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection."
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"There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick and choose where it suits you and when it doesn't suit you, you pull back."
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"The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy."
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"The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted."
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