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I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.


Michael Scheuer


#badge #cia #clarke #criticism #had

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.


Josiah Strong


#before #here #inherent #itself #long

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.


Maurice Strong


#done #keep #tendency #them #things

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.


Jack Dee


#belonged #comics #common #depression #during

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#concerns #enforce #general #level #me

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.


Norman Jewison


#always #animal #being #chased #fugitive

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.


Arthur Young


#intending #know #lack #machinery #machines

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.


Rudolf Arnheim


#art #derived #derives #man #manifestation

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.


Jack Black


#big #film #i #later #play

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#already #america #anyone #attention #course






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