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When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism
I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.
one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.
Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.
For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.
I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match.
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.
I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.
Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.