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«Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.»
Author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
| Keywords:
confidences, confirm, propensities, propensity, sharing
«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
«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| About:
Ambition,
Choice,
Democracy,
Freedom,
Government,
Ignorance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
ambitious, licentiousness, propensities, propensity
«The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.»
«The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Dogs
| Keywords:
affording, commends, mastery, propensity
«With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Economics,
Instinct,
Motives
| Keywords:
alert, emulation, persistent, propensity
«The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.»
«The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Events,
Miracles
| Keywords:
absurdity, all ages, detect, detected, forged, instances, propensity, Prophecies, sufficiently, supernatural
«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
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