#tendency

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

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Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth. ↗

— William Banting

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