Inclination Quotes
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Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
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Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
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I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
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I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment, but an inclination to what feels right.
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Blanche stared at Emmeline’s door for a few moments, bristling with the desire to knock and trying to conquer her natural inclination to defy the voice of authority. It was one of the reasons she had not lasted in the waitressing, telephone sales, clerking, and typing jobs she’d tried over the years.
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I'd like to take a look at the process and see how it goes, ... It is not my inclination to do anything that would be divisive to the party.
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
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Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
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At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
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Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.
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Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.
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Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.
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A military life has ever comported with my inclination.
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Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.
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I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
