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The propensity to do good things is a choice.
I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.
I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.
Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I'm being absolutely serious about that.
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.
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
After all, advocates, including advocates for States, are like managers of pugilistic and election contestants in that they have a propensity for claiming everything.
Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.
Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.
There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.
You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored.
Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.
Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.
I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.
Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn't changed, and it isn't going to change for a long time.
I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.
As you get older, you mellow, but there's a natural propensity to watch what you say, 'cause you learn that you want more time and space to craft what you want to say because you're less likely to want to say impetuous things, or things that aren't thought-out properly.
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character - not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he's obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.
I think all human beings have a propensity to believe in things, and to have hope, and I think as a child especially you have a lot of hope and you believe in a lot of things, and your bedroom is a safe space and an imaginative space where you can escape and go off into wherever you want.