#tendency

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#assassination #become #believe #certain #charge

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

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#knowledge #logic #make #men #tendency

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#american life #american men #because #built-in #certain

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director. ↗

— David Mamet

#actor #became #correct #director #good

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#american #american accent #because #caricature #create

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#even #hard #i #me #need

The tendency of everyone is to evolve. ↗

— Romario

#evolve #tendency

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

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