#inclination

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. ↗

— George Saunders

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When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. ↗

— George A. Smith

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It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. ↗

— David Sylvian

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I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. ↗

— James Joyce

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Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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