#tend

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week. ↗

— Luke Ford

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. ↗

— John Fowles

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Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves. ↗

— Kate Fox

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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. ↗

— Marie de France

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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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