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«A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.»
Author: Eustace Budgell
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Friendship
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good and, habitual, inclination, persons, promote, promotes
«And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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«In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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alert, alerting, display, doctrines, inclination, in the United States, keener, on the alert, owned, threaten
«Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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accord, attach, attach to, cultivate, inclination, pains, prompt, prompting, prompts, spontaneous
«In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.»
«It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.»
«A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good»
«If you have the inclination to do good work, God will give you the time to do good things.»
«Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination»
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