Quotes with tends

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  • Maria Montessori If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Laurence Peter In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
    The Peter Principle
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  • Laurence J. Peter In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Alan Greenspan In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
    The Age of Turbulence (2008) p.275
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Anita Brookner Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species - it is the tigress and lioness in you - which tends to defend when attacked.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bill Keller My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Camille Paglia My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Colette Dowling Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
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  • J. G. Gallimore Once in motion, a pattern tends to stay in motion.
    J. G. Gallimore
    American author
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  • E. M. Forster One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Sidney Madwed Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Lord Acton Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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