#propensity

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

— David Hume

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Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. ↗

— Marek Belka

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The propensity to do good things is a choice. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule. ↗

— David Coleman

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