For life is tendency proverb

 For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
  Henri Bergson

 The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
  Jane Addams

 The sin of Science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them. There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, the tendency to renovate its ideas. Our education is a ceaseless compromise between the conservative and the progressive factors.
  William James

 We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
  Thomas Macaulay

 Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

 The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

 If you've had an injury and get a chance to be ambulatory, you have a tendency to want to get the most out of life,

 I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
  Ernest Hemingway

 I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
  Ernest Hemingway

 well-functioning markets have no innate tendency to promote excellence in any form. They offer no resistance to forces making for a descent into cultural barbarity or moral depravity.

 A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance. the Palestinian tendency to commit suicide is now showing itself in its political life.

 When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.

 ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

 GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain --the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.


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