"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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"Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies."
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"Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater."
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"The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around."
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"This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure."
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"To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words."
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"I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to."
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"All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power."
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"Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age."
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"Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion."
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"I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days."
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"Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited."
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"I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth."
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"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."
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"Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either."
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"My tendency is to be very experimental."
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