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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Love
Dreams
You
My Life
Fall
Tendency
Know
Apart
Awake
Sleep
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr
God
Value
Our
Claim
Religious
Tendency
Ally
Partisan
Source
Ends
Fanaticism
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin
Life
Dignity
Animal
Natural
Worm
Relative
Vitality
General
Tendency
Foot
Instinct
Crushes
Revolt
Intensity
Against
Natural Tendency
Turns
Measured
Even
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
Fitness
Nature
Ought
Dissolution
Gutter
Tendency
He
Drunkard
She
Him
According
Survived
Just
Where
Process
Which
Decline
Usefulness
Things
Set
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
George Lucas
Power Corrupts
You
Corrupts
Power
Few
Every
Think
Hundred
Hundred Years
Charge
Classic
Tendency
Over
Because
Doing
Years
Same
Same Things
Being
Story
Again
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Actually
Right
Things
Start
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Francis Jeffrey
Complaining
Symptom
Sign
Tendency
Taken
Surest
Souls
Inferior
May
Little
Whining
When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.
Richard Branson
Me
Reflection
Criticism
Mirror
Think
Bathroom
Kid
Would
Criticize
Criticizes
Minutes
About
Ten
Ten Minutes
Tendency
Never
Had
How
Off
Did
Front
Poor
Stand
Less
Who
Mum
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy Carter
People
Own
Our
Define
Paramount
Insignificant
Tendency
Condemn
Sins
Being
Different
Us
Who
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
Myself
Immorality
Tendency
Exception
Make
Essence
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese
Kindness
People
Compassion
Looking
Tolerance
Live
Older
Way
More
Tendency
Had
Look
Gotten
Who
Things
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness
You
Suffering
Experience
Run
No Chance
Fact
Tendency
Look
Real
Real Happiness
In Fact
Suffered
Away
Chance
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.
Alanis Morissette
Getting Older
Older
Recommend
Tendency
Highly
Getting
Less
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
Chris Fussell
Natural
Become
System
Tendency
Excuse
Bureaucracy
Any
Inaction
Natural Tendency
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
Wealth
Power
Every
Destroyed
Has-Been
Distribution
Civilization
Tendency
Previous
Been
Unequal
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
John Ortberg
Politics
Power
Narcissism
Control
Our
About
Divide
Tendency
Issues
Goes
Human
After
Race
Them
Us
Human Race
Largely
Right
Need
Core
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Be Happy
Happy
Will
First
Our
Our Lives
Ourselves
Must
Follow
Remain
Tendency
Impetus
Primarily
New
Look
React
Least
Causes
Line
Provide
Either
Against
Us
Activities
Lives
Resistance
External
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about that 'one that got away,' or you're recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine's Day, romanticizing the past isn't helpful - nor accurate.
Amy Morin
Alone
Day
You
Valentines Day
Past
Valentine
Relationships
Dangers
About
Date
February
Tendency
Tale
Daydreaming
Major
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Got
Nor
Accurate
Dwell
Being
Being Alone
Whether
Helpful
Away
Recalling
Last
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman
Party
Assume
One Party
Only
Economic
Tendency
Pie
Most
Another
Fixed
Expense
Gain
Derive
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln
Education
Time
Happy
Power
Become
Enterprise
See
Morality
Something
General
More
Shall
Tendency
Part
Advancement
Period
Accelerate
Industry
Than
Contribute
Any
Which
Sobriety
Might
Much
Should
Means
Measure
Gratified
Present
Desire
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
David Ogilvy
Other
Marketing
Cash
Only
Purposes
Tendency
Factor
Advertising
Clients
Mix
Whenever
Avoid
Whom
Raid
Awkward
Marginal
Need
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
Iyanla Vanzant
Truth
Me
Lie
Strong
Word
Will
Too
Respected
Say
Stay
About
Tendency
Feel
Perhaps
Withhold
Done
Order
Want
Loved
Who
Connected
Humans
Need
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Life
Truth
You
Eyes
People
Matter
Will
Believe
Say
Telling
Telling The Truth
Someone
Tendency
Know
Look
Because
Always
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
John Malkovich
Life
People
Life Is Short
Mine
Say
Seems
Tendency
Never
Always
Go
Been
Short
Convinced
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
Lia Ices
Life
Art
Privacy
Giving
Tendency
Sharing
Between
Blend
Lines
Want
Blur
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Norman Mailer
Life
Honor
Men
Destroy
Tendency
Masculinity
Because
Left
Very
American
Little
American Life
American Men
Certain
Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
Pratibha Patil
Faith
Blame
People
Own
Doubt
Others
Our
Everything
Unable
Ourselves
Responses
Find
Distrust
Give
Seems
Constructive
Tendency
Almost
Almost Everything
Institutions
Quick
Afford
Often
Amongst
Strengths
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