#inclination

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#being #different #inclination #just #kind

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination. ↗

— Terry Lander

#inspiration #writers #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ↗

— Rumi

#guidance #inclination #occupations #preferences #pull

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. ↗

— Xun Zi

#defer #die #each #follow #human

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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