#tendency

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.' ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#class #defies #make #mind #out

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. ↗

— Hugh Lofting

#always #been #children #classify #distinct

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you. ↗

— James Franco

#because #care #directing #everything #feel

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#get #get married #hang #hang in there #hanging