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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog. ↗

— Judd Apatow

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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— John Acton

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

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Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

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As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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