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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
Pope Benedict XVI
Strong
Evil
Seen
Intrinsic
Moral
Must
Moral Evil
Objective
More
More Or Less
Tendency
Thus
Sin
Particular
Although
Itself
Person
Ordered
Disorder
Less
Inclination
Homosexual
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
Rachel Sklar
Define
Parent
Something
Tendency
Does
Person
Offspring
Famous
Famous Person
Notable
Them
I think with Lesnar, it's always going to be him coming in every few months as a monster who destroys guys who work 200 days a year... There is a tendency for that to get old.
Randy Orton
Work
Old
Year
Few
Every
Think
Monster
Months
Destroys
Guys
Tendency
Days
Him
Always
Coming
Get
Going
Who
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.
Rich Cohen
Terrorism
Battle
Problem
Events
Despair
Solution
See
Facing
Tendency
Without
Wake
Awful
When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.
Richard Linklater
You
Big
Something
Tendency
Had
Go
Opposite
Get
Impulse
Serious
Film
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
Richard Wagner
Me
Become
Christian
Must
Critics
Seem
Tendency
Absurd
Him
Glorification
How
Modern
Want
Ingenious
Who
Specifically
Interpret
Governments have a tendency to screw up currencies.
Rick Harrison
Tendency
Governments
Up
Screw
It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You'll stay fresh.
Rickie Fowler
You
Waiting
Slow
Become
Exhausted
Stay
Minute
About
More
Mentally
Tendency
Chat
Instead
Concentrate
Well
Partners
Fresh
Score
Than
Anything
Golf
While
Shot
Shots
Your
Each
Round
Harder
Playing
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Work
Word
One Line
Must
Paragraph
Tendency
Writer
He
Line
His
Measured
I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.
Robert Nozick
You
Try
Old
Job
Wrinkles
Think
Guess
Some
Something
Tendency
Idea
Combined
New
Major
Piece
Maybe
Essentially
Different
Then
Coherent
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
Robert Rainy
Life
Good
First
Christian
Reconcile
Tendency
Could
Had
Arise
Occupations
Which
Social
Modes
Customs
Profession
Many
Actions
Christians
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.
Robert Winston
Religion
Personality
Feelings
Control
Those
Religious
Some
Gene
Tendency
Nobody
Genes
Involved
Likely
Identified
Chemicals
Brain
Any
Candidate
May
Human
Influence
Different
Which
While
Certainly
Human Personality
Levels
Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.
Robin Marantz Henig
Lose
Whatever
Way
Eat
More
Only
Tendency
Individual
Weight
Exercise
Any
Gain
Gain Weight
Less
Reason
High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.
Rodney Stark
Crime
Men
Crimes
High
More
Risky
Tendency
Toward
Likely
Make
Does
Proven
Been
Testosterone
Up
Commit
Behaviour
Where
Different
Turning
Even
Socialization
Keeps
Levels
There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.
Roger Ailes
Me
Tough
Think
Somehow
Guy
More
Tough Guy
Point
Tendency
Simplify
Am
Lot
Media
I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.
Rollo May
Man
Science
Seriously
Admitting
Our
Machine
Dangers
Tendency
Take
Study
Over
Make
Him
Very
Modern
Modern Science
Which
Apology
Techniques
Image
The tendency of everyone is to evolve.
Romario
Everyone
Evolve
Tendency
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
Ronald Fisher
Work
Truth
Great
Stress
Too Much
Too
Neglect
Relatively
Books
Way
Detail
Lay
Tendency
Obscure
Weight
Masses
Principles
Scientific
Questionable
Modern
Far
Much
Unimportant
Doubtful
Teaching
Such A Way
Present
I have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and those are all pretty bad no-no's being in front of the camera.
Roy Choi
People
Sometimes
Those
Bad
Pretty
Tendency
Look
Talk
Camera
Off
Trail
Up
Front
Being
Conversations
Cook
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
Rudolf Arnheim
Nature
Man
Science
Organic
State
Inorganic
Both
Tendency
Towards
Governed
Hand
Modem
Same
Order
Then
Actions
There is a tendency to presume autobiography in fiction by women or minorities. Guys named Jonathan write universal stories, while there's this sense that everyone else is just fictionalizing their own small experiences.
Rumaan Alam
Women
Own
Sense
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Presume
Minorities
Guys
Small
Tendency
Write
Jonathan
Named
Just
Autobiography
Experiences
Fiction
Stories
While
Universal
Some people say to me, 'You don't sound very Irish.' It's because I have this tendency to iron out my accent: not because I'm ashamed of it but because it makes my life easier if I don't keep having to repeat myself.
Ruth Negga
Life
Myself
Me
You
People
Some People
My Life
Say
Easier
Out
People Say
Some
Having
Tendency
Accent
Because
Makes
Sound
Repeat
Very
Irish
Iron
Ashamed
Keep
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Education
Weak
Constant
Nerves
Tendency
Am
Deplorable
Central
English
European
Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
Said Nursi
Future
Law
Become
Past
Creation
Evident
Something
Fact
Tendency
Through
Perfection
Development
Bound
Towards
Self-Evident
Gradual
May
Established
In The Past
Theoretical
Innate
Present
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
Sam Kean
You
Change
Natural
Think
Something
Tend
Neuroscience
Tendency
Like
Read
Disciplines
Lot
Human
Prejudices
Your
Fashions
Things
They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
Sam Shepard
Work
Man
Signs
Long
Think
Way
Say
Diminish
Run
TV
Bad
Wears
Tendency
Long Run
He
True
Like
Dental
Any
Being
Fantastic
Show
They Say
Actor
Damaged
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