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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan

Good Propensity Tends Idea Toward Clergy Suppress Because Celibate Any Fanaticism Hereditary Good Idea

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Heart Discipline Evil Human Heart Propensity Powerful Subdued May Human

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development. T. D. Jakes

Our See Propensity Develop Development Forgive Ages Illustrated Early

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. Orison Swett Marden

You Man Heart Made Whatever Possible Dreaming Propensity Look Empty Discourage Upward Realities Your Aspire Desires

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. Ryan Kwanten

Time You Business Genius Care Down Every Rejection Other Every Time Back Back Up Able Propensity More Knocked Deal How How Much Up Survive Than Get Any Going To Survive Then Much Actor

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. Amanda Plummer

People World Strong School Try Girl First Met Become About Propensity Poetry Had Disappear Invisible Wrote She Still Very Grade Grade School Woods Loved Which Little Little Girl Novel Lived Imaginary Imaginary World

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. Benjamin Haydon

Good Nature Evil Human Nature Extract Out Propensity Surely Human Inherent

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume

Hope Joy Fear Poverty Propensity Sorrow Real Riches

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. Fisher Ames

Democracy Liberty Believe Propensity Call Known Ambitious Which Ignorant

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. Geoff Dyer

Think Though Bored Boredom No Excuse Propensity Absolutely Failing Excuse Terrible Sort Opinion Am Personal Being Even

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules. Huston Smith

History Society Rules Those Ours Rigid Religions Propensity More Only Almost Buddhism Most Forbid Forbidden Known Hinduism Permissive Western Up Than The Only Thing Asia Asian Notion Teachers Now Ever Play Thing Progeny

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. Irvine Welsh

Great Family People Amazing Think Everybody Tell Telling Would Brothers Propensity Something Could Had Towards Tales Tradition Go Were His Very Oral Celtic Just Stories Storytellers Storytelling Much Dad

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. Jeffrey Skoll

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge. Jen Lancaster

Relationship You Women Natural Husband Think Else Everyone Say Minute Someone Propensity Wedge Except Bothers Take Outside Never Between Talk Causes Gets Oh Want Anyone Anything Against Your Fights Ever Bond

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future. John Cameron Mitchell

Future Propensity Weird Know Going Happen

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. Meghan Markle

Time Class School Down Kids Pretty Propensity Had Like Well Catholic Catholic School Always Years Handwriting Getting Six Actually

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. Richard Preston

Space Enormous Trees Out Propensity Something Small Area Put Limbs Because Surface Redwood Upward Burst Copies

The propensity to do good things is a choice. Shaun Cassidy

Good Good Things Propensity Choice Things

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. Weyes Blood

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. William E. Simon

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