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Letter "P" » propensity
«A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
celibate, Celibates, clergy, especially, fanaticism, good idea, hereditary, propensities, propensity, suppress, suppresses, suppressing, tends, tends to
«Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.»
«Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!»
Author: W.J. Reichmann
| Keywords:
categories, classification, classifications, classified, exceptions, labelled, lending, neatly, outrageous, pretensions, propensity, remarkable
«A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
propensities, propensity
«Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Self-denial
| Keywords:
denial, forego, foregoes, foregoing, foregone, propensity, self-denial
«Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.»
«Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Poverty
| Keywords:
dreadful, propensity
«Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
although, ill, ill health, jeer, jeered, jeering, jeers, mend, mending, physicians, propensities, propensity, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers
«No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
discipline, evil, Human heart, may not, powerful, propensities, propensity, subdued, subdues
«If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.»
Author: Wayne Dyer
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
applied, group, groups of people, group of people, humans, on that, propensities, propensity, repeat, research, social change, social changes, unique, unlikely
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