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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions.
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy.
When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.
I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
There are a lot of Swedes in Hollywood in general. We have a tendency to know each other and help each other out.
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
When you're working in crisis situations, people have a tendency - particularly the media - to stake out your house.
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
With a woman around, there's a tendency to eliminate vulgarity and profanity and create a more businesslike attitude.
I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.
I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.
Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.
There's a tendency to think tap's had its day, but 'Happy Feet' kept us in the race. That penguin is our Shirley Temple.
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: 'What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?'