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#tendency

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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


#constitutes #culture #disposition #independent #innate

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.


Ellsworth Huntington


#bound #could #forever #his #innate

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.


Donald Knuth


#better ways #computer #computer science #contributions #current

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.


John Sharp Williams


#bay #cynical #dog #grown #i

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.


Gene Wilder


#get #i #i can #i write #know

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.


Chauncey Wright


#civilization #combined #energies #genius #individual

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.


Patrick Marber


#constantly #depressive #having #i #tendency

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.


Tom Osborne


#always #history #matter #odds #overcome

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.


Bruno Rossi


#inborn #into #lifelong #science #tendency

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.


George Santayana


#belong #breed #does #free #gather






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