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  • Epictetus If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Lord George Byron No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Alexander Pope How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Amy Lowell Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Julius Charles Hare Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbour for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
    Julius Charles Hare
    English theological writer (1795 - 1855)
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  • J. C. Hare Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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  • Barry Marshall The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Plutarch The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • A. E. Housman The rainy Pleiads wester,
    Orion plunges prone,
    The stroke of midnight ceases,
    And I lie down alone.
    More Poems (1936) No. 11, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Erickson There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Plato Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Eric Hoffer We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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