#inclination

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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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

#business #concerned #far #i #inclinations

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#holiness #inclination #beauty

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#democracy #inclination #injustice #justice #makes

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#because #completely #either #going #healthy

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

#back #because #before #done #gets

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#different way #express #i #inclination #myself

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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Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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