#inclination

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. ↗

— George A. Smith

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It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. ↗

— David Sylvian

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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it. ↗

— Sean Young

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed. ↗

— Beth Henley

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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