#tendency

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

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In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ↗

— Jane Addams

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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. ↗

— John James Audubon

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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

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up. ↗

— Brian Molko

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