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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 14 -
Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Source: Een geschikte jongen (1993) 609 -
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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We have a propensity for starting and joining all kinds of organisations, the result was that we were spending more time in conferences than implementing the decisions.
Source: Commenting on Tanzanias withdrawal from COMESA. 2000-09-04 -
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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