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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#evil #heart #human #human heart #may

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 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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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#any #back #back up #business #care

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#believe #call #democracy #ignorant #known