#inclination

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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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#even #full #had #house #how

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

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When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#care #close #day #develop #die

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. ↗

— Jean Racine

#hearts #i #inclination #know #own

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

— David Sylvian

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I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

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