#tendency

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#detail #doubtful #far #great #lay

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#already #country #disagreement #elected #felt

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#bit #change #develop #enough #full

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

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#embark #feel #had #here #international

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#efficient #former #latter #made #only