#inclination

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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Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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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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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