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Tag Name "Predisposition" (15)

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Predisposition is not predestination.
William Landay
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James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.
Walter Mischel
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.
Ian Macfarlane
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When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.
John Reader
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They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
Sigmund Freud
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As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life.... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers.
Tim LaHaye
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Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.
Wallace D. Wattles
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It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
Washington Irving
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If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
Clayton Christensen
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The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age, any religion, and without any philosophical predisposition.
John Hagelin
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Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
Paul Kagame
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I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
Rita Dove
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The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.
Ted Gup