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«Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it's not coming down in delicate droplets, then it's in buckets; and if neither, it tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere.»
Author: Barbara Acton-Bond
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«My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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«Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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«Successful action tends to become an end in itself»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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Action,
Motivation,
Success
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tends, tends to, to become
«Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).»
Author: Harold Rosenberg
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agitator, Agitators, arrested, continued, costume, costumes, engaged, ideology, in the United States, jargon, jargon of, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, publicly, successes, tends, tends to, transformation, visibility, vitality
«Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.»
Author: Sidney Madwed
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financial, intrinsic value, net, poorer, poor man, relative, tends, tends to
«Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence»
«Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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Absolute Power, corrupt, corrupts, tends, tends to
«Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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accustomed, be well, coarse, diet, distributed, downhill, frugal, hermit, hermits, observed, Spartan, tends, tends to
«The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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craves, impatient, on the other hand, repetition, shocked, tends, tends to, The Ear, the novel, unexpected
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