| "The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go." »Ni'matullah Wali |
| "I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency." »Anonymous |
| "The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity." »James Fenimore Cooper |
| "The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it." »David Searles |
| "The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency." »Margaret Fuller |
| "Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions." »Warren Bennis |
| "The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor |
| "The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods." »John Calvin |
| "It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos." »Carlos Castaneda |
| "I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno |
| "It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward." »Thomas Huxley |
| "I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out." »Tony Blair |
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