#inclination

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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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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That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed. ↗

— Beth Henley

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Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

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I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

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I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. ↗

— Jean Racine

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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. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ↗

— Washington Irving

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