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Tag Name "Tends" (585)

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The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
Leo Burnett
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Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.
Pauline Kael
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My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge.
Robert Ryman
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My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
Bill Keller
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I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.
Bif Naked
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The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.
Simone Weil
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People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
Daniel Kahneman
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Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.
Kristin Davis
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Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.
Renata Adler
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The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.
Tony La Russa
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I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.
Keith Sonnier
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Good rock music always tends to be around.
Dave Davies
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The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
John Lancaster Spalding
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.
Paul Goodman
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As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.
Rachel Hoffman
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The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one project of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.
Herbert Marcuse
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United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at. And I think they overdid it. There was more military force than was necessary.
Noam Chomsky
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When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
William Ross Ashby
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The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.
Johan Cruijff
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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