#propensity

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. ↗

— Jane Austen

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The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity. ↗

— Ron Fairly

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

— David Hume

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Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. ↗

— Marek Belka

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The propensity to do good things is a choice. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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