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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ↗

— Ben Hogan

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Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching. ↗

— James Levine

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I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best. ↗

— James Longstreet

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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