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Tag Name "Inclination" (243)

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Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
George Eliot
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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.
James Boswell
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As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
Friedrich Schiller
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For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.
Marcel Proust
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One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave.
Jim Rohn
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You'll face overwhelming odds you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.
James MacDonald
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
Gautama Buddha
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My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.
Mark Shields
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I'm a mediator by training and inclination.
Joan Blades
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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith
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Brands must make use of the inclination of consumers to be persuaded by friends.
Martin Lindstrom
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When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.
Joe Scarborough
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There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
George Crabbe
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It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
David Sylvian
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So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.
Mary Augusta Ward
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are not masters of our own affections our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?
George Etherege
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The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other for envy creates the beginning of strife.
Democritus
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
John Adams
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I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
George Washington
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Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Duty is whatever opposes inclination.
Mason Cooley
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Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.
John C. Maxwell
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