#inclination

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. ↗

— Martha Beck

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I'm a mediator by training and inclination. ↗

— Joan Blades

#inclination #mediator #training

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes

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 no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

#emotions #every #external #external objects #find

Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#means #patience #restraining

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#even #full #had #house #how