Inclination Quotes
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Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
Albert Einstein
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Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
R. C. Sproul
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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.
Petrarch
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I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"
Philip Morrison
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
William Hazlitt
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I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment, but an inclination to what feels right.
Natasha Tsakos
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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.
Lynn Swann
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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.
BarbaraNeely
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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.
Albert Einstein
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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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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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.
Steve Martin
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At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
William Standish Knowles
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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
Immanuel Kant
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
Francis Bacon
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Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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.
Barbara Holland
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A military life has ever comported with my inclination.
George Stoneman
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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.
Sarah Fielding
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Herbert Spencer
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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.
Wolf Blitzer
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
Evangelista Torricelli