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«There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.»
Author: Benjamin Haydon
| Keywords:
extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, Human nature, inherent, propensities, 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
«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
«All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities»
«The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
bitterness, choler, continuance, continuances, fits, frequent, mid, moronity, occurrence, occurrences, oftentimes, peevish, propensities, propensity, querulous, ulcerated, wounded
«Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.»
«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
«I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities»
«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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